Leadership and Initiative in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome /

Leadership and Initiative in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome /

What does it mean to be a leader? This collection of seventeen studies breaks new ground in our understanding of leadership in ancient Rome by re-evaluating the difference between those who began a political action and those who followed or reacted. In a significant change of approach, this volume s...

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Other Authors: Frolov, Roman M. (Editor), Demidov, P.G. (Editor), Burden-Strevens, Christopher (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 453.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Supplement 2022.

Subjects:

Latin literature.
Rome.
Political leadership > Rome > History.
Political participation > Rome > History.
Rome > History > Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D.
Rome > History > Republic, 265-30 B.C.
Rome > Politics and government > 265-30 B.C.
Rome > Politics and government > 30 B.C.-68 A.D.

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction
  • Roman M. Frolov
  • Part 1 Locating Political Initiative in Republican Rome
  • 2 Governing a City-State: Magistrates, Assemblies, and Public Space in Republican Rome
  • Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
  • 3 Public Opinion and Political Initiative in Republican Rome
  • Alexander Yakobson
  • Part 2 Seniority and Status as Factors of Political Agency
  • 4 Acting Up: The Post of Master of the Mint as an Early-Career Move in the Late Republic
  • Christopher Burden-Strevens
  • 5 Consulars, Political Office, and Leadership in the Middle and Late Republic
  • Catherine Steel
  • Part 3 Women's Initiative in Roman Politics
  • 6 Female Interventions in Politics in the libera res publica : Structures and Practices
  • Lewis Webb
  • 7 Urgulania, Plancina, and Livia: Women's Initiative in Early Imperial Politics
  • Josiah Osgood
  • Part 4 Political Initiative in Emergencies
  • 8 "He Took Care of the City and Supported It": Initiative as a Prerequisite for Fabius' cunctatio
  • Tassilo Schmitt
  • 9 Political Initiative during interregna in the Late Roman Republic
  • Vera V. Dementyeva
  • Part 5 Leadership at a Time of Change
  • 10 Leadership through Letters: Cicero and Cassius' Correspondence in 44-43 bce
  • Henriette van der Blom
  • 11 The Dynamics of Elite Agency in a Post-Caesar World (44-31 bce )
  • Hannah Mitchell
  • 12 Seizing Initiative in the Sphere domi : Magistrates, Promagistrates, and the Senate at the Outset of 32 bce
  • Roman M. Frolov
  • Part 6 Fighting for Initiative
  • 13 Potentiality through Conflict: Political Initiatives, Conflict, and the Political Evolution of the Roman Republic
  • Oliver Grote
  • 14 Losing the Lead: The Crisis of the Late Roman Republic as a Crisis of Senatorial Leadership
  • Claudia Tiersch
  • Part 7 Political Initiative outside of Rome
  • 15 Late Republican Local Rebellions and Marches against Rome: Agency and Initiative in the "Catilinarian Insurgency"
  • Katarina Nebelin
  • 16 Petitioning for Change in the Republican Empire
  • Kit Morrell
  • Part 8 Political Initiative and Leadership in Military Contexts
  • 17 Omnia deinde arbitrio militum acta : Political Initiative and Agency of the Army in Late-Republican and Early Imperial Rome
  • Alexander V. Makhlaiuk
  • 18 The Emperor and His Generals: Military Agency in the Early Principate
  • Wolfgang Havener
  • Index.