"What does it mean to be a leader? This collection of seventeen studies breaks new ground in our understanding of leadership in ancient Rome by re-evaluating the difference between those who began a political action and those who followed or reacted. In a significant change of approach, this volume shifts the focus from archetypal "leaders" to explore the potential for individuals of different ranks, social statuses, ages, and genders to seize initiative. In so doing, the contributors provide new insight into the ways in which the ability to initiate communication, invent solutions, and prompt others to act resonated in critical moments of Roman history"--page 4 of cover.
Author(s): Frolov, Roman M.; Burden-Strevens, Christopher
Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum 453
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: xvi, 522
City: Leiden - Boston
ntroduction / Roman M. Frolov
Governing a city-state : magistrates, assemblies, and public space in republican Rome / Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
Public opinion and political initiative in republican Rome / Alexander Yakobson
Acting up : the post of master of the mint as an early-career move in the late Republic / Christopher Burden-Strevens
Consulars, political office, and leadership in the middle and late Republic / Catherine Steel
Female interventions in politics in the libera res publica : structures and practices / Lewis Webb
Urgulania, Plancina, and Livia : women's initiative in early imperial politics / Josiah Osgood
"He took care of the city and supported it" : initiative as a prerequisite for Fabius' cunctation / Tassilo Schmitt
Political initiative during interregna in the late Roman Republic / Vera V. Dementyeva
Leadership through letters : Cicero and Cassius' correspondence in 44-43 BCE / Henriette van der Blom
The dynamics of elite agency in a post-Caesar world (44-31 BCE) / Hannah Mitchell
Seizing Initiative in the Sphere domi : magistrates, promagistrates, and the Senate at the outset of 32 BCE / Roman M. Frolov
Potentiality through conflict : political initiatives, conflict, and the political evolution of the Roman Republic / Oliver Grote
Losing the lead : the crisis of the late Roman Republic as a crisis of senatorial leadership / Claudia Tiersch
Late republican local rebellions and marches against Rome : agency and initiative in the "Catilinarian insurgency" / Katarina Nebelin
Petitioning for change in the Republican Empire / Kit Morrell
Omnia deinde arbitrio militum acta : political initiative and agency of the army in late-republican and early imperial Rome / Alexander V. Makhlaiuk
The emperor and his generals : military agency in the early principate / Wolfgang Havener.
