The Role of Ex-Consuls in Republican Rome, 218–31 BCE

The first book in any language to explore systematically the political activities of ex-consuls, who formed the top of the aristocracy during the Roman Republic and were therefore expected to play a prominent role in Roman politics and society.

List of contents

1. Facing up to the crisis: consulars during the Hannibalic war (218-202); 2. Consulars between the second Punic war and Sulla's dictatorship (201-82); 3. Consulars between Sulla's dictatorship and the civil war (81-50); 4. Consulars under Caesar's rule and in the Triumviral period (49-31); Conclusions; References; Index of subjects; Index of names.

About the author

FRANCISCO PINA POLO is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He is also the author of The Consul at Rome: The Civil Functions of the Consuls in the Roman Republic (Cambridge, 2011), and co-director of the series Libera Res Publica: Monografías sobre la República Romana.

Product details

• Authors: Pina Polo Francisco
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.05.2025
• EAN: 9781009597371
• ISBN: 978-1-009-59737-1
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Sociology, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Political science and theory, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, 3rd century, c 299 to c 200 BCE