Leadership and initiative in late republican and early imperial Rome / edited by Roman M. Frolov, Christopher Burden-Strevens.
"What does it mean to be a leader? This collection of seventeen studies breaks new ground in our understanding of leadership in ancient Rome by re-evaluating the difference between those who began a political action and those who followed or reacted. In a significant change of approach, this vo...
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2022]
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| Series: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
453. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / 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.