The lack of evidence has proved to be the greatest obstacle
involved in reconstructing the quaestorship and has probably
discouraged scholars from undertaking a large-scale study of the
office. As a consequence, a comprehensive study of the quaestorship
has long been a desideratum: this book aims to fill this gap in the
scholarship. The book contains a study of the quaestorship
throughout the Roman Republic, both in Italy (particularly at Rome)
and in the overseas provinces. It includes a history of the office,
an analysis of its role within the cursus honorum and its larger
importance for the Roman constitution as well as the prosopography
of all quaestors known during the Republican period based on the
literary, epigraphic and numismatic evidence. The quaestorship was
always an office for beginners who aspired to follow a political
career and hence served as institutional entrance to the senate.
Despite their youth, quaestors were endowed with functions of great
significance at Rome and abroad, such as the control and
supervision of Rome's finances. As the book shows, the quaestorship
was a prominent and essential part of the Roman administration.
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