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Book SynopsisPresents an analysis of Roman political culture in the middle Republic that focuses on the concerns of the Roman Senate as it decided whether or not to award a victorious general triumphal honors. This book examines several Senate debates as reported by the historian Livy.
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Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Livy's Republican Rome PART I. SETTING STANDARDS: IMPERIO AUSPICIO DUCTU FELICITATE 1. Triumphal Decision Making and the SPQR 2. Consular Tribunes and Privati cum Imperio: Magistracy and Triumph 3. Crossing Provincial Boundaries: Joint Campaigns and Overlapping Jurisdictions 4. The Importance of Closure 5. Body Counts; or, Who Killed Whom 6. Patterns of Success PART II. THE PERFORMANCE OF POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF PERFORMANCE 7. Prologue: The Triumphs of the Second Punic War 8. L. Furius Purpureo in 2: The Centrality of Narrative 9. L. Cornelius Merula in 193: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 10. L. Cornelius Scipio Nasica in 191: Family Ties and the Art of Persuasion 11. M. Fulvius Nobilior in 187: Staging Hostilities 12. Cn. Manlius Vulso in 187: Beyond Allowable Limits? 13. M. Popillius Laenas in 173: Inverting the Paradigm 14. L. Aemilius Paullus in 167: Rogatio ad Populum and the Soldiers' Revenge Conclusion: Triumphs and Roman Values Appendix A: Fasti Liviani: Requests for Triumphs, 218 -- 167 B.C. Appendix B: Success Rates of Triumph Requests, 218 -- 167 B.C. Bibliography Index Locorum General Index
