{"product_id":"9781316234358","title":"Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic: Politics in Prose","description":"The study of Roman republican magistracy has traditionally been the preserve of historians posing constitutional and prosopographical questions. As a result, one fundamental aspect of our most detailed contemporary and near-contemporary sources about magistracy has remained largely neglected: their literariness. This book takes a new approach to the representation of magistrates and shows how the rhetorical and formal features of prose texts - principally Livy's history but also works by Cicero and Sallust - shape our understanding of magistracy. Applying to the texts an expanded concept of exemplarity, Haimson Lushkov shows how a rich body of anecdotes concerning the behaviour and speech of magistrates reflects on the values and tensions that defined the republic. A variety of contexts - familial, military, and electoral, among others - flesh out the experience of being, becoming, and encountering a Roman magistrate, and the political and ethical problems highlighted and negotiated in such circumstances.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136979910896,"sku":"9781316234358","price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781316234358_p0.jpg?v=1763706793","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781316234358","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}