- Description
- 1 online resource.
- 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"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781139644303
- 1139644300
- 9781316247587
- 1316247589
- LCCN
- 2014032235
- OCLC
- 903346309
- Author
Haimson Lushkov, Ayelet.
- Title
Magistracy and the historiography of the Roman republic : politics in prose / Ayelet Haimson Lushkov.
- Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
265-30 B.C
- Other Form:
Original 9781107040908 1107040906 (DLC) 2014032235