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Magistracy and the historiography of the Roman republic : politics in prose

Haimson Lushkov, Ayelet

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\"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.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Magistrates, Roman. / Political culture Rome History. / Rhetoric Political aspects Rome History. / HISTORY / Ancient / General. / Rome History Republic, 265-30 B.C. / Rome Politics and government 265-30 B.C.
• ISBN: 9781107040908, 1107040906

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DG83.5.M2 H35 2015	1	BOOK	GENERAL