TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Magistracy and the historiography of the Roman republic : politics in prose
A1  - Haimson Lushkov, Ayelet
LA  - eng
PP  - Cambridge, United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2838200
AB  - "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"--
OP  - 201
SN  - 1107040906
SN  - 9781107040908
KW  - 265 - 30 B.C.
KW  - Magistrates, Roman.
KW  - Political culture : Rome : History.
KW  - Rhetoric : Political aspects : Rome : History.
KW  - antiikki
KW  - hallintohistoria
KW  - historiankirjoitus
KW  - tasavallat
KW  - virkamiehet
KW  - Political culture.
KW  - Political science.
KW  - Rhetoric : Political aspects.
KW  - Rome : History : Republic, 265-30 B.C.
KW  - Rome : Politics and government : 265-30 B.C.
KW  - Rooman valtakunta
KW  - Rome (Empire)
ER  -