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.
Author(s): Francisco Pina Polo, Alejandro Díaz Fernández
Series: KLIO / Beihefte. Neue Folge, 31
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 376
City: Berlin
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
