ISBN:
9783110666410
,
9783110663747
Series Statement:
KLIO - Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte : Beihefte. Neue Folge Band 31
Content:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The origin of the quaestorship -- Chapter 2: The development of the quaestorship and the so-called Italian quaestors -- Chapter 3: The quaestorship within the political career: Age requirements and the cursus honorum -- Chapter 4: Election, entry into office and allocation of quaestorian provinciae -- Chapter 5: The urban quaestorship -- Chapter 6: The quaestor overseas: Development and role of the quaestorship in the provinces -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: A prosopography of the Roman Republican quaestorship -- Appendix 2: Chronological list of quaestors in the Roman Republic -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of subjects
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110663419
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Pina Polo, Francisco, 1959 - The quaestorship in the Roman Republic Berlin : De Gruyter, 2019 ISBN 9783110663419
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110663414
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Quästor
;
Geschichte
;
Quästor
;
Cursus honorum
;
Geschichte
;
Römisches Reich
;
Quästor
;
Cursus honorum
;
Geschichte 509-27 v. Chr.
DOI:
10.1515/9783110666410
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Diaz Fernandez, Alejandro 1980-
Author information:
Pina Polo, Francisco 1959-
