By Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

ISBN-10: 1107040906

ISBN-13: 9781107040908

The learn of Roman republican magistracy has frequently been the defend of historians posing constitutional and prosopographical questions. for that reason, one primary point of our such a lot certain modern and near-contemporary resources approximately magistracy has remained mostly ignored: their literariness. This booklet takes a brand new method of the illustration of magistrates and indicates how the rhetorical and formal positive aspects of prose texts - largely Livy's background but in addition works by way of Cicero and Sallust - form our knowing of magistracy. making use of to the texts an elevated suggestion of exemplarity, Haimson Lushkov exhibits how a wealthy physique of anecdotes in regards to the behaviour and speech of magistrates displays at the values and tensions that outlined the republic. various contexts - familial, army, and electoral, between others - flesh out the event of being, changing into, and encountering a Roman Justice of the Peace, and the political and moral difficulties highlighted and negotiated in such circumstances.

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