The Quaestorship in the Roman Republic

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-11-076370-6
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 376 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 737 g

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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.

Zielgruppe

Ancient History, Classics, History of Ancient Rome, Ancient Roman

Autoren/Hrsg.

Díaz Fernández, Alejandro

Pina Polo, Francisco

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Francisco Pina Polo, Universidad Zaragoza, Spain; Alejandro Díaz Fernández, Universidad Málaga, Spain.