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Magistracy and the historiography of the Roman republic : politics in prose / Ayelet Haimson Lushkov.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haimson Lushkov, Ayelet, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Magistrates, Roman.
- Political culture--Rome--History.
- Political culture.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--Rome--History.
- Rhetoric.
- Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.
- Rome.
- Rome--Politics and government--265-30 B.C.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 201 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Magistracy & the Historiography of the Roman Republic
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The study of Roman republican magistracy has traditionally been the preserve of historians posing constitutional and prosopographical questions. As a result, one fundamental aspect of our most detailed contemporary and near-contemporary sources about magistracy has remained largely neglected: their literariness. This book takes a new approach to the representation of magistrates and shows how the rhetorical and formal features of prose texts - principally Livy's history but also works by Cicero and Sallust - shape our understanding of magistracy. Applying to the texts an expanded concept of exemplarity, Haimson Lushkov shows how a rich body of anecdotes concerning the behaviour and speech of magistrates reflects on the values and tensions that defined the republic. A variety of contexts - familial, military, and electoral, among others - flesh out the experience of being, becoming, and encountering a Roman magistrate, and the political and ethical problems highlighted and negotiated in such circumstances.
- Contents:
- Introduction : exemplarity, magistracy, and narrative
- Magisterial authority and the politics of affection
- Authority in crisis : the Caudine Forks
- Elections and the generation of exempla
- Elections as narratives of magistracy
- Epilogue : staging authority.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical reference and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-23624-2
- 1-316-25326-0
- 1-316-24948-4
- 1-316-25137-3
- 1-316-23435-5
- 1-316-24758-9
- 1-139-64430-0
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