In Ambitione Artifices
Electioneering and Elections in the Roman Republic
- ISBN: 9791370140632
- Editorial: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza
- Fecha de la edición: 2026
- Lugar de la edición: Zaragoza. España
- Colección: Libera Res Publica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 320
- Idiomas: Inglés
Elections constituted the core of the political system of the Roman Republic. Each year, Roman citizens elected numerous magistrates of varying rank, and the outcome of these elections played a decisive role in shaping the political trajectory of individual candidates within the cursus honorum. This volume examines the nature of Roman Republican elections, analysing their structures, complexities, and exceptions; the scope of political participation; the avenues of access to lower-ranking offices and minor magistracies; and the ways in which architectural space was employed to frame the populus as a voting body. It also considers the reliability of our sources for Republican electoral practices, the role of campaign promises and policy pledges, and the potential influence of both soldiers and women on electoral outcomes. Taken together, the contributions of this volume provide an essential intervention in the ongoing scholarly debate on the character and functioning of the Roman Republic.
Introduction
Eleonora Zampieri
Aristocratic competition for the people’s votes – Roman elections and some of their complexities
Alexander Yakobson
Qui (et combien de personnes) votaient à Rome ? Des procédures à l’interprétation politique de la participation électorale
Clément Chillet
Election promises in Rome
Timothy Smith
New perspectives on post-Sullan elections
Eleonora Zampieri
Constructing the populus on the Campus Martius: architecture, ideology, and the people
Tim Elliott
Electoral choice and electoral chance: elections to the quaestorship after Sulla
Catherine Steel
Lower-ranking elected offices under the Republic: the case of the tresuiri capitales
Andrea Angius
Elections and army in mid-Republican Rome
Michele Bellomo
Soldiers and politics in the late Roman Republic: experiments in the formation of a new category of citizens
Marco Rocco
(Former) Tales of the unexpected. Women and elections in the Roman Republic
Giulia Vettori
Elections and electioneering in Valerius Maximus
Henriette van der Blom
Ius libertatis inminutum: the political life of the sons and daughters of the proscribed by Sulla
Francisco Pina Polo – Cristina Rosillo-López
Non digni homines honore honestati: le elezioni consolari dal 68 al 63 a.C.
Gianpaolo Urso
Index of persons
Index of subjects and places
