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Beschreibung
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 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.
Über den Autor
Francisco Pina Polo, Universidad Zaragoza, Spain; Alejandro Díaz Fernández, Universidad Málaga, Spain.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Geisteswissenschaften, Geschichte, Kunst, Musik
Jahrhundert: Altertum
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: X
376 S.
12 Illustr.
ISBN-13: 9783110663419
ISBN-10: 3110663414
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Pina Polo, Francisco
Díaz Fernández, Alejandro
Hersteller: De Gruyter
de Gruyter, Walter, GmbH
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Maße: 246 x 175 x 33 mm
Von/Mit: Francisco Pina Polo (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.04.2025
Gewicht: 0,91 kg
Artikel-ID: 116113110

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