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1 online resource (363 pages) : map |
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Cover -- The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Map -- List of Abbreviations -- 1: Dictator and Magister Equitum -- 1.1 The Quarrel -- 1.1.1 A Victory or Two-or a Defeat? -- 1.1.2 The Missing Magister Equitum -- 1.1.3 Facts, Traditions, and Pictor's Version -- 1.2 Rullianus as Magister Equitum -- 1.2.1 Competing Chronologies -- 1.2.2 The Story Not Told -- 1.3 The Challenge -- 1.3.1 Dictator vs. Master of the Horse: Imperium and Auspices |
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1.3.2 Mercy, Disobedience, and the Shadow of Defeat -- 1.4 The Play -- 1.5 The Aftermath -- 1.5.1 Cotta at Lipara -- 1.5.2 Minucius Rufus -- 2: Imperium and Auspices -- 2.1 Imperium -- 2.1.1 Mommsen and Alternatives -- 2.1.2 All Imperia Are Equal (but Some Are More Equal than Others) -- 2.1.3 Potestas and Imperium -- 2.2 Auspicia: Basic Concepts -- 2.2.1 Augurs, Augury, and Magistrates -- 2.2.2 The Vinculum Temporis -- 2.3 The "Auspices of Investiture" -- 2.4 The "Auspices of Departure": the Evidence -- 2.4.1 The Praetor Approved by the Birds |
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2.4.2 Votis in Capitolio nuncupatis paludatus cum lictoribus profectus -- 2.5 The "Auspices of Departure"-a Modern Fiction -- 2.5.1 The Departure of Gaius Flaminius -- 2.5.2 Taking the Auspices along from Home -- 2.6 Repeating the Auspices -- 2.6.1 The Significance of Place -- 2.6.2 Vitium in Auspicio -- 2.6.3 Auspicia Militiae? -- 3: Dictator -- 3.1 The Lictors -- 3.1.1 Ahenobarbus' Fasces -- 3.1.2 Cicero and His Laureled Lictors -- 3.1.3 The Magistrate Without His Lictors -- 3.1.4 The Turnus -- 3.1.5 No Lictors, No Action -- 3.2 Cessation or Termination? -- 3.2.1 Polybios and Plutarch |
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3.2.2 Dionysios -- 3.3 The Nature of the Office -- 3.3.1 Peculiar Aspects -- 3.3.2 What's in a Name? -- 3.3.3 Dic(t)ator Latinus -- 3.3.4 Dictator and Magister Populi -- 3.3.5 Imperium Valentius -- 3.4 Term Limits -- 3.4.1 The Dictio -- 3.4.2 Dictator sine Magistro Equitum -- 3.4.3 The Magister Equitum as Dictator -- 3.4.4 The Six-monthLimit -- 4: Magister Equitum -- 4.1 The Auspices of the Magister Equitum -- 4.2 Auspices and Triumph -- 4.2.1 Catulus and Falto -- 4.2.2 Salinator and Nero -- 4.2.3 Furius Purpurio -- 4.2.4 Helvius -- 4.2.5 Suis Auspiciis -- 4.3 The Consul as Magister Equitum |
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4.3.1 Cases of Cumulation -- 4.3.2 Lepidus as Magister Equitum -- 4.4 The Magister Equitum and the Augurs -- 4.4.1 Caesar and Antonius: the Time Frame -- 4.4.2 The Magister Equitum Named by the Consul: Constitutional Considerations -- 4.4.3 No Decree for Caesar -- 4.4.4 Lepidus' Enabling Act and the Auspices -- 4.4.5 The Objection to Antonius -- 5: Drowning the Chickens -- 5.1 The Pulli -- 5.1.1 The Evidence -- 5.1.2 Servius, the Tribune, and the Chickens -- 5.2 The Auspices at Sea -- 5.2.1 Augural Waters -- 5.2.2 Making a Move, on Land and at Sea |
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5.3 The Location of the Vitium: Claudius and Iunius |
| Summary |
The Challenge to the Auspices presents an investigation into the interaction of Roman magistrates during the Middle Republic with the practice of auspices, with a focus on attempts to avoid, ignore, or resist this requirement |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed August 15, 2023) |
| Subject |
Divination -- Political aspects -- Rome
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Magistrates, Roman.
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Magistrates, Roman.
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- History -- Republic, 510-30 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115114
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192668066 |
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0192668064 |
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9780192668059 |
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0192668056 |
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