The Praetorship in the Roman Republic Volume 1: Origins to 122 BC

by Brennan, T. Corey

• ISBN13: 9780195114591
• ISBN10: 0195114590
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Brennan's book surveys the history of the Roman praetorship, which was one of the most enduring Roman political institutions, occupying the practical center of Roman Republican administrative life for over three centuries. The study addresses political, social, military and legal history, as well as Roman religion. Volume I begins with a survey of Roman (and modern) views on the development of legitimate power--from the kings, through the early chief magistrates, and down through the creation and early years of the praetorship. Volume II discusses how the introduction in 122 of C. Gracchus' provincia repetundarum pushed the old city-state system to its functional limits.

Table of Contents

Conventions and Abbreviations	xv
Introduction	3	(31)
Development of the Republican Praetorship: An Overview	3	(3)
The Sources for the Republican Praetorship	6	(6)
Mommsen's View of Imperium and Auspicia, and Reactions to It	12	(8)
Reactions to Mommsen's View of the Earliest ``Praetores''	20	(5)
Theories of the Development of the Praetorship	25	(9)
Antecedents of the Praetorship	34	(24)
Praefectus Urbi	34	(4)
The Dictator	38	(5)
Magister Equitum	43	(6)
The Consular Tribunate	49	(5)
The Censorship	54	(4)
The Creation and Early Development of the Praetorship down to 264	58	(21)
Sources on the Introduction of the Praetorship	59	(2)
The ``Legal'' Motive for the Introduction of the Praetorship	61	(2)
The Political Aspects of the Creation of the Praetorship	63	(6)
Administrative Motives for the Introduction of the Praetorship	69	(4)
The Introduction and Early Development of Prorogation	73	(2)
The Praetorship in the Third Samnite War	75	(2)
The Praetorship, 291-264	77	(2)
Developments in the Praetorship, 263-219	79	(19)
The Praetorship in the First Punic War	79	(6)
The Creation of the Praetor Inter Peregrinos	85	(4)
The Praetorship between the First and Second Punic Wars	89	(9)
The City Praetorships, 218-122	98	(38)
General Characteristics of the City Praetors	98	(4)
The City Praetors in the Second Punic War	102	(5)
Administration of the City Provinciae after 197	107	(4)
Praetorian Presidency of the Senate and Assemblies	111	(11)
The Levy and Religious Duties	122	(3)
Legal Duties of the City Praetors	125	(11)
Sicily and Sardinia, 218-122	136	(18)
Military Activities of the Sicilian and Sardinian Praetors in the Second Punic War	136	(8)
Sicily and Sardinia in the Period 197-166	144	(6)
Sicily and Sardinia in the Period 165-122	150	(4)
The Spains, 218-122	154	(28)
Commands to Privati, 218-198	154	(9)
The Spains as Praetorian Provinciae, 197-166	163	(10)
Administrative Policy in the Spains, 165-122	173	(9)
The Special Provinciae, 218-122	182	(40)
Titulature of the Special Praetorian Provinciae	182	(3)
Methods of Obtaining Special Praetorian Commands	185	(5)
Developments in the Use of Special Praetorian Provinciae in the Italian Peninsula	190	(12)
Praetors and the Reestablishment of Roman Control in Central and South Italy	202	(3)
Praetorian Commands in the Greek East	205	(36)
Special Praetorian Provinciae, 165-122	241
General Developments in the Praetorship, 165-122	222	(25)
New Praetorian Territorial Provinciae down to 122	222	(13)
Introduction of the Permanent Quaestio in Rome	235	(4)
The New Administrative System of 146	239	(2)
The Staffing of the Praetorian Provinciae after 146 down to 122	241	(6)
Notes to Volume I	247