The Quaestorship in the Roman Republic / Francisco Pina Polo, Alejandro Díaz Fernández.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pina Polo, Francisco, Author.

Díaz Fernández, Alejandro, Author.

Series:

KLIO / Beihefte. Neue Folge ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magistrates, Roman.

Rome--Civilization--265-30 B.C.

Rome.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The lack of evidence has proved to be the greatest obstacle involved in reconstructing the quaestorship and has probably discouraged scholars from undertaking a large-scale study of the office. As a consequence, a comprehensive study of the quaestorship has long been a desideratum: this book aims to fill this gap in the scholarship.The book contains a study of the quaestorship throughout the Roman Republic, both in Italy (particularly at Rome) and in the overseas provinces. It includes a history of the office, an analysis of its role within the cursus honorum and its larger importance for the Roman constitution as well as the prosopography of all quaestors known during the Republican period based on the literary, epigraphic and numismatic evidence.The quaestorship was always an office for beginners who aspired to follow a political career and hence served as institutional entrance to the senate. Despite their youth, quaestors were endowed with functions of great significance at Rome and abroad, such as the control and supervision of Rome's finances. As the book shows, the quaestorship was a prominent and essential part of the Roman administration.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: The origin of the quaestorship

Chapter 2: The development of the quaestorship and the so-called Italian quaestors

Chapter 3: The quaestorship within the political career: Age requirements and the cursus honorum

Chapter 4: Election, entry into office and allocation of quaestorian provinciae

Chapter 5: The urban quaestorship

Chapter 6: The quaestor overseas: Development and role of the quaestorship in the provinces

Conclusions

Appendix 1: A prosopography of the Roman Republican quaestorship

Appendix 2: Chronological list of quaestors in the Roman Republic

Bibliography

Index of names

Index of subjects

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110663747

3110663740

9783110666410

3110666413

OCLC:

1121056807