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The challenge to the auspices : studies on magisterial power in the middle Roman Republic /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Konrad, Christoph F. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Divination > Political aspects > Rome.
Magistrates, Roman.
Rome > History > Republic, 510-30 B.C.
Divination > Aspect politique > Rome.
Magistrats romains.
Rome > Histoire > 510-30 av. J.-C. (République)
Rome.
HISTORY.
Europe.
Magistrates, Roman
Rome (Empire)
510-30 B.C.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 5.3 The Location of the Vitium: Claudius and Iunius