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The Quaestorship in the Roman Republic
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Francisco Pina Polo
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
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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.
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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Francisco Pina Polo, Universidad Zaragoza, Spain; Alejandro Díaz Fernández, Universidad Málaga, Spain.
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Contents
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Introduction
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Chapter 1: The origin of the quaestorship
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Chapter 2: The development of the quaestorship and the so-called Italian quaestors
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Chapter 3: The quaestorship within the political career: Age requirements and the cursus honorum
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Chapter 4: Election, entry into office and allocation of quaestorian provinciae
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Chapter 5: The urban quaestorship
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Chapter 6: The quaestor overseas: Development and role of the quaestorship in the provinces
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Conclusions
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Appendix 1: A prosopography of the Roman Republican quaestorship
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Appendix 2: Chronological list of quaestors in the Roman Republic
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Bibliography
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Index of names
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Index of subjects
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eBook published on:
September 23, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9783110666410
Hardcover published on:
September 23, 2019
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110663419
Paperback published on:
September 20, 2021
Paperback ISBN:
9783110763706
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
10
Main content:
376
Illustrations:
12
eBook ISBN:
9783110666410
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110663419
Paperback ISBN:
9783110763706
Audience(s) for this book
Ancient History, Classics, History of Ancient Rome, Ancient Roman Law
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