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Magistracy and the historiography of the Roman republic, politics in prose, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

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Magistracy and the historiography of the Roman republic, politics in prose, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Magistracy and the historiography of the Roman republic

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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903346309

Responsibility statement

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

politics in prose

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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of 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

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