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Preface
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The republic and its highest office: some introductory remarks on the Roman consulate
Part I The creation of the consulship
1 The magistrates of the early Roman republic
2 The origin of the consulship in Cassius Dio's Roman History
3 The development of the praetorship in the third century bc
Part II Powers and functions of the consulship
4 Consular power and the Roman constitution: the case of imperium reconsidered
5 Consuls as curatores pacis deorum
6 The Feriae Latinae as religious legitimation of the consuls’ imperium
7 War, wealth and consuls
Part III Symbols, models, self-representation
8 The Roman republic as theatre of power: the consuls as leading actors
9 The consul(ar) as exemplum: Fabius Cunctator's paradoxical glory
10 The rise of the consular as a social type in the third and second centuries bc
11 Privata hospitia, beneficia publica? Consul(ar)s, local elite and Roman rule in Italy
Part IV Ideology, confrontation and the end of the republican consulship
12 Consular appeals to the army in 88 and 87: the locus of legitimacy in late-republican Rome
13 Consules populares
14 The consulship of 78 bc. Catulus versus Lepidus: an optimates versus populares affair
15 Consulship and consuls under Augustus
Bibliography
Index of persons
Subject index
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