Leadership and initiative in late republican and early imperial Rome 9789004511392

"What does it mean to be a leader? This collection of seventeen studies breaks new ground in our understanding of l

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English Pages xvi, 522 [536] Year 2022

Leadership and initiative in late republican and early imperial Rome
9789004511392

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Frolov
Roman M.; Burden-Strevens
Christopher

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History

Table of contents :
ntroduction / Roman M. Frolov
Governing a city-state : magistrates, assemblies, and public space in republican Rome / Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
Public opinion and political initiative in republican Rome / Alexander Yakobson
Acting up : the post of master of the mint as an early-career move in the late Republic / Christopher Burden-Strevens
Consulars, political office, and leadership in the middle and late Republic / Catherine Steel
Female interventions in politics in the libera res publica : structures and practices / Lewis Webb
Urgulania, Plancina, and Livia : women's initiative in early imperial politics / Josiah Osgood
"He took care of the city and supported it" : initiative as a prerequisite for Fabius' cunctation / Tassilo Schmitt
Political initiative during interregna in the late Roman Republic / Vera V. Dementyeva
Leadership through letters : Cicero and Cassius' correspondence in 44-43 BCE / Henriette van der Blom
The dynamics of elite agency in a post-Caesar world (44-31 BCE) / Hannah Mitchell
Seizing Initiative in the Sphere domi : magistrates, promagistrates, and the Senate at the outset of 32 BCE / Roman M. Frolov
Potentiality through conflict : political initiatives, conflict, and the political evolution of the Roman Republic / Oliver Grote
Losing the lead : the crisis of the late Roman Republic as a crisis of senatorial leadership / Claudia Tiersch
Late republican local rebellions and marches against Rome : agency and initiative in the "Catilinarian insurgency" / Katarina Nebelin
Petitioning for change in the Republican Empire / Kit Morrell
Omnia deinde arbitrio militum acta : political initiative and agency of the army in late-republican and early imperial Rome / Alexander V. Makhlaiuk
The emperor and his generals : military agency in the early principate / Wolfgang Havener.

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