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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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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic
• Subtitle: Politics in Prose
• Author: Ayelet Haimson Lushkov
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 214
• EAN: 9781107040908
• ISBN: 1107040906
• ID: 05140663
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 444 g
• Dimensions: 239 × 161 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. February 2015

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