Magistracy and the historiography of the Roman republic : politics in prose /

Magistracy and the historiography of the Roman republic : politics in prose /

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Author / Creator:	Haimson Lushkov, Ayelet, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015. ©2015.
Description:	xi, 201 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Magistrates, Roman. Political culture -- Rome -- History. Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Rome -- History. Magistrates, Roman. Political culture. Political science. Rhetoric -- Political aspects. Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C. Rome -- Politics and government -- 265-30 B.C. Rome (Empire) History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10137251

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ISBN:	9781107040908 1107040906
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--

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