Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 796 g
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Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 796 g
Reihe: ISSN
ISBN: 978-3-11-066341-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
The book contains a study of the quaestorship throughout the Roman Republic, both in Italy (particularly at Rome) and in the overseas provinces. It includes a history of the office, an analysis of its role within the cursus honorum and its larger importance for the Roman constitution as well as the prosopography of all quaestors known during the Republican period based on the literary, epigraphic and numismatic evidence.
The quaestorship was always an office for beginners who aspired to follow a political career and hence served as institutional entrance to the senate. Despite their youth, quaestors were endowed with functions of great significance at Rome and abroad, such as the control and supervision of Rome’s finances. As the book shows, the quaestorship was a prominent and essential part of the Roman administration.