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Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic: Politics in Prose
Contributor(s): Haimson Lushkov, Ayelet (Author)

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 ISBN: 1108820093     ISBN-13: 9781108820097
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $39.89  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- History | Ancient - Rome
Dewey: 870
Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.64 lbs) 213 pages
 
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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.
 
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