Imperatores Victi: Military Defeat and Aristocractic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic
by Rosenstein, Nathan S
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Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1990. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Softcover, 224 pages. Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman Republic, one would expect that their persistent struggles for honor, glory, and power could have seriously undermined the state or damaged the cohesiveness of the ruling class. Rome in fact depended on aristocratic competition, since no professional bureaucracy directed public affairs and no salary was attached to any public office. But as Rosenstein adeptly shows, competition appears to have been surprisingly limited, in ways that curtailed the possible destructive effects of all-out contests between individuals. Imperatores Victi examines one particularly striking case of such checks on competition. Military success at all times represented an abundant source of prestige and political strength at Rome. Generals who led armies to victory enjoyed a better-than-average chance of securing higher office upon their return from the field. Yet this study demonstrates that defeated generals were not barred from public office and in fact went on to win the Republic's most highly coveted and hotly contested offices in numbers virtually identical with those of their undefeated peers. Record # 379165
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- Imperatores Victi: Military Defeat and Aristocractic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic
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- Rosenstein, Nathan S
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0520069390
- ISBN 13
- 9780520069398
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- University of California Press
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- Date Published
- 1990
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