The Quaestorship in the Roman Republic / / Francisco Pina Polo, Alejandro Díaz Fernández.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Pina Polo, Francisco,; Díaz Fernández, Alejandro,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: KLIO / Beihefte. Neue Folge : Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte , 31
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 376 p.)

The lack of evidence has proved to be the greatest obstacle involved in reconstructing the quaestorship and has probably discouraged scholars from undertaking a large-scale study of the office. As a consequence, a comprehensive study of the quaestorship has long been a desideratum: this book aims to fill this gap in the scholarship.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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The origin of the quaestorship -- Chapter 2: The development of the quaestorship and the so-called Italian quaestors -- Chapter 3: The quaestorship within the political career: Age requirements and the cursus honorum -- Chapter 4: Election, entry into office and allocation of quaestorian provinciae -- Chapter 5: The urban quaestorship -- Chapter 6: The quaestor overseas: Development and role of the quaestorship in the provinces -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: A prosopography of the Roman Republican quaestorship -- Appendix 2: Chronological list of quaestors in the Roman Republic -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of subjects