Governing a City-State: Magistrates, Assemblies, and Public Space in Republican Rome

Karl-J. Hölkeskamp

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Chapter 2 Governing a City-State: Magistrates, Assemblies, and Public Space in Republican Rome

于Leadership and Initiative in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome

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Page Range:: 39–63

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004511408_003

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Abstract

“Taking the lead” in the Roman Republic seems, at first sight, to have been a strict and tightly controlled process of decision from above. Magistrates gave orders, published decrees, and handed down judgments. However, at a closer look it becomes clear that leadership by formal and informal magisterial action regularly took the shape of initiating a communicative interaction between the magistrate on the one hand, and on the other hand the Senate as a body, a formal assembly, or a contio. In the political culture of a Mediterranean city-state, this interaction was direct, face-to-face, and took place in reserved spaces of the sacral political landscape. The actual physical “co-presence” and in fact the active participation of the citizen body as an audience were integral to this process. The man in the Roman street was always more than a mere “spectator” in the narrow sense of the concept—he was regularly an “integral interlocutor in the community’s ritual dialogue,” even a “co-actor.” The Roman culture of spectacles developed a complex system of sets and spaces as stages, leading and supporting roles, in which actors and audiences permanently interact and, in a way, even change roles in a drama about Rome.

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Leadership and Initiative in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome

丛编： Mnemosyne, Supplements, 卷： 453and Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, 卷： 453

ISBN:: 9789004511408

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 31 Jan 2022

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- Classical Studies
  - Ancient History
  - Greek & Latin Literature
- History
  - Social History

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Part 1 Locating Political Initiative in Republican Rome

Part 2 Seniority and Status as Factors of Political Agency

Part 3 Women’s Initiative in Roman Politics

Part 4 Political Initiative in Emergencies

Part 5 Leadership at a Time of Change

Part 6 Fighting for Initiative

Part 7 Political Initiative outside of Rome

Part 8 Political Initiative and Leadership in Military Contexts

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