Research Catalog

Title

A history of the Roman equestrian order / Caillan Davenport.

Author

Davenport, Caillan, 1981-

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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Details

Description

xxv, 717 pages : illustrations (black and white); 26 cm

Summary

"This book is an institutional and social history of the equestrian order (ordo equester) in the Roman world. It charts the history of the equestrians (equites) in their various guises from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD. We begin with the mounted aristocracy of the Regal period and the cavalry of the early Republic, as the Romans regarded as these warriors as the ancestors of the later equestrian order. The order itself only emerged as a constituent status group within the Roman state (res publica), distinct from both the senate and the plebs, in the late second century BC. Membership of the equestrian order in the Republican period included tax-collectors, businessmen, jurors, and military officers. The equites Romani were distinguished by their own status symbols, such as gold rings and the tunic with a narrow stripe, ceremonies with religious and political meaning, and privileges such as front-row seats of the theatre. In the age of the emperors, the ranks of the equites included governors, financial administrators and other officials, as Augustus and his successors gave them an important role in the management of the res publica alongside senators"--

Subject

• Equestrian order (Rome)
• Social classes > Rome
• Elite (Social sciences) > Rome
• Elite (Social sciences)
• Manners and customs
• Social classes
• Rome > Social life and customs
• Rome (Empire)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 631-686) and index.

Contents

Introduction: charting the history of the equestrian order -- Riding for Rome -- Cicero's equestrian order -- Questions of status -- Pathways to the principate -- An imperial order -- Cursus and vita (I): officers -- Cursus and vita (II): administrators -- Ceremonies and consensus -- Spectators and performers -- Religion and the Res Publica -- Governors and generals -- The last Equites Romani -- Conclusion: the more things change....

Call Number

JFF 19-1123

ISBN

• 9781107032538
• 1107032539

LCCN

• 2018042047
• 40028910169

OCLC

1056202606

Author

Davenport, Caillan, 1981- author.

Title

A history of the Roman equestrian order / Caillan Davenport.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 631-686) and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40028910169

Research Call Number

JFF 19-1123