The Challenge to the Auspices [electronic resource] : Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Konrad, C. F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Divination--Political aspects--Rome.

Divination.

Magistrates, Roman.

Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Electronic books.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2022.

Summary:

The Challenge to the Auspices presents an investigation into the interaction of Roman magistrates during the Middle Republic with the practice of auspices, with a focus on attempts to avoid, ignore, or resist this requirement.

Contents:

Cover

The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Contents

List of Map

List of Abbreviations

1: Dictator and Magister Equitum

1.1 The Quarrel

1.1.1 A Victory or Two-or a Defeat?

1.1.2 The Missing Magister Equitum

1.1.3 Facts, Traditions, and Pictor's Version

1.2 Rullianus as Magister Equitum

1.2.1 Competing Chronologies

1.2.2 The Story Not Told

1.3 The Challenge

1.3.1 Dictator vs. Master of the Horse: Imperium and Auspices

1.3.2 Mercy, Disobedience, and the Shadow of Defeat

1.4 The Play

1.5 The Aftermath

1.5.1 Cotta at Lipara

1.5.2 Minucius Rufus

2: Imperium and Auspices

2.1 Imperium

2.1.1 Mommsen and Alternatives

2.1.2 All Imperia Are Equal (but Some Are More Equal than Others)

2.1.3 Potestas and Imperium

2.2 Auspicia: Basic Concepts

2.2.1 Augurs, Augury, and Magistrates

2.2.2 The Vinculum Temporis

2.3 The "Auspices of Investiture"

2.4 The "Auspices of Departure": the Evidence

2.4.1 The Praetor Approved by the Birds

2.4.2 Votis in Capitolio nuncupatis paludatus cum lictoribus profectus

2.5 The "Auspices of Departure"-a Modern Fiction

2.5.1 The Departure of Gaius Flaminius

2.5.2 Taking the Auspices along from Home

2.6 Repeating the Auspices

2.6.1 The Significance of Place

2.6.2 Vitium in Auspicio

2.6.3 Auspicia Militiae?

3: Dictator

3.1 The Lictors

3.1.1 Ahenobarbus' Fasces

3.1.2 Cicero and His Laureled Lictors

3.1.3 The Magistrate Without His Lictors

3.1.4 The Turnus

3.1.5 No Lictors, No Action

3.2 Cessation or Termination?

3.2.1 Polybios and Plutarch

3.2.2 Dionysios

3.3 The Nature of the Office

3.3.1 Peculiar Aspects

3.3.2 What's in a Name?

3.3.3 Dic(t)ator Latinus

3.3.4 Dictator and Magister Populi

3.3.5 Imperium Valentius

3.4 Term Limits

3.4.1 The Dictio

3.4.2 Dictator sine Magistro Equitum

3.4.3 The Magister Equitum as Dictator

3.4.4 The Six-monthLimit

4: Magister Equitum

4.1 The Auspices of the Magister Equitum

4.2 Auspices and Triumph

4.2.1 Catulus and Falto

4.2.2 Salinator and Nero

4.2.3 Furius Purpurio

4.2.4 Helvius

4.2.5 Suis Auspiciis

4.3 The Consul as Magister Equitum

4.3.1 Cases of Cumulation

4.3.2 Lepidus as Magister Equitum

4.4 The Magister Equitum and the Augurs

4.4.1 Caesar and Antonius: the Time Frame

4.4.2 The Magister Equitum Named by the Consul: Constitutional Considerations

4.4.3 No Decree for Caesar

4.4.4 Lepidus' Enabling Act and the Auspices

4.4.5 The Objection to Antonius

5: Drowning the Chickens

5.1 The Pulli

5.1.1 The Evidence

5.1.2 Servius, the Tribune, and the Chickens

5.2 The Auspices at Sea

5.2.1 Augural Waters

5.2.2 Making a Move, on Land and at Sea

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

5.3 The Location of the Vitium: Claudius and Iunius

Other Format:

Print version: Konrad, C. F. The Challenge to the Auspices

ISBN:

9780192668066

0192668064

OCLC:

1341444425

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