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Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic - Politics in Prose (Paperback, New Ed)
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Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic - Politics in Prose (Paperback, New Ed)
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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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