The Quaestorship in the Roman Republic

Francisco Pina Polo; Alejandro Díaz Fernández

Published by De Gruyter 2019

The Quaestorship in the Roman Republic

Francisco Pina Polo and Alejandro Díaz Fernández

Volume 31 in the series KLIO / Beihefte. Neue Folge

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110666410

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About this book

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.

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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1: The origin of the quaestorship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Chapter 2: The development of the quaestorship and the so-called Italian quaestors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 3: The quaestorship within the political career: Age requirements and the cursus honorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Chapter 4: Election, entry into office and allocation of quaestorian provinciae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Chapter 5: The urban quaestorship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 6: The quaestor overseas: Development and role of the quaestorship in the provinces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Appendix 1: A prosopography of the Roman Republican quaestorship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Appendix 2: Chronological list of quaestors in the Roman Republic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	336
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	348
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	366
Index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	374

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Ancient History, Classics, History of Ancient Rome, Ancient Roman Law
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 376
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 12
Keywords: Quaestorship; Roman Republic; Roman cursus honorum

eBook

Published: September 23, 2019
ISBN: 9783110666410

Hardcover

Published: September 23, 2019
ISBN: 9783110663419

Paperback

Published: September 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110763706