Consuls and res publica : holding high office in the Roman Republic

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Introduction Hans Beck, Antonio Dupla, Martin Jehne and Francisco Pina Polo Part I. The Creation of the Consulship: 1. The magistrates of the early Roman Republic Christopher Smith 2. The origin of the consulship in Cassius Dio's Roman History Gianpaolo Urso 3. The development of the praetorship in the third century BC Alexander Bergk Part II. Powers and Functions of the Consulship: 4. Consular power and the Roman constitution: the case of imperium reconsidered Hans Beck 5. Consuls as curatores pacis deorum Francisco Pina Polo 6. The feriae latinae as religious legitimation of the consuls' imperium Francisco Marco Simon 7. War, wealth and consuls Nathan Rosenstein Part III. Symbols, Models, Self-Representation: 8. The Roman Republic as theatre of power: the consuls as leading actors Karl-Joachim Holkeskamp 9. The consul(ar) as exemplum: fabius cunctator's paradoxical glory Matthew Roller 10. The rise of the consular as a social type in the third and second centuries BC Martin Jehne 11. Privata hospitia, beneficia publica? Consul(ar)s, local elite, and Roman rule in Italy Michael Fronda Part IV. Ideology, Confrontation and the End of the Republican Consulship: 12. Consular appeals to the army in 88 and 87: the locus of legitimacy in late Republican Rome Robert Morstein-Marx 13. Consules populares Antonio Dupla 14. The consulship of 78 BC: Catulus versus Lepidus: an optimates versus populares affair Valentina Arena 15. Consulship and consuls under Augustus Frederic Hurlet.

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