Cursus honorum
pathways to rank and power in the Roman Republic
- ISBN: 9791387705138
- Editorial: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza
- Fecha de la edición: 2025
- Lugar de la edición: Zaragoza. España
- Colección: Libera Res Publica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 386
- Idiomas: Español
This volume addresses a crucial issue for the political culture of the Roman Republic: competition among individuals and families of the social elite. This rivalry came to head at the annual elections of new magistrates: every year, a number of candidates ran for office and whereas some obtained sufficient votes from the people, others were defeated. The political career of a Roman citizen therefore took the shape of a hierarchical ladder (cursus honorum) whose rungs corresponded to the age at which one or other magistracy was attained. The book deals with the position of the cursus honorum in Republican history, reflects on the way scholarship has constructed its political and social significance for the political culture of the period, and discusses questions relating to how Roman citizens pursued different political careers. The outcome is a groundbreaking and essential contribution to a better understanding of the Roman Republic.
Introduction
Francisco Pina Polo
The cursus honorum from Biondo to Mommsen
Federico Santangelo
The cursus honorum before the cursus honorum: debunking the lex Villiaannalis
Hans Beck
Military tribunes with consular power, auspices and the birth of the cursus honorum
Thibaud Lanfranchi
The political career of consulars in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE
Francisco Pina Polo
Honores to the heroes – the tribuni militum and the cursus honorum
Marian Helm
The tribunate of the plebs and the cursus honorum
Amy Russell
What impact did the provincial management have on the Roman cursus honorum?
Alejandro Díaz Fernández
The cursus honorum, the Senate, and the lectio senatus in the long second century BCE
Catherine Steel
In the “thick of politics”: the role of drafting committees and consilia in the cursus honorum of young senators (2nd-1stcenturies BCE)
Cristina Rosillo-López
Legati pro praetore and the rise of an alternative cursus honorum
David Rafferty
The cursus honorum and rivalry: some episodes about winners, losers and debts
Martin Jehne
Refraining from running for office in the last two centuries of the Roman Republic: voluntary refusal, constraints and strategy
Robinson Baudry
Provinciam neglexit. The consequences of waiving the right to govern a province for the cursus honorum of aristocrats during the late Roman Republic
Julie Bothorel
Praetors and domestic politics in late Roman Republic: 49-43 BCE
Elisabetta Todisco
Being a consularis under Augustus: a career within the career
Frédéric Hurlet
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects and Places
