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F. Pina Polo y A. Díaz Fernández, The Quaestorship in the Roman Republic. Berlin, Klio Beihefte, De Gruyter, 2019. ISBN 978-3-11-066341-9, 2019

A comprehensive study of the quaestorship has long been a desideratum: this book aims to fi ll th... more A comprehensive study of the quaestorship has long been a desideratum: this book aims to fi ll this gap. It contains a study of the quaestorship throughout the Roman Republic, both in Italy and in the overseas provinces. It includes a history of the offi ce, 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.

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Las contribuciones que se recogen en este volumen abordan aspectos muy diversos dentro de la temá... more Las contribuciones que se recogen en este volumen abordan aspectos muy diversos dentro de la temática general del coloquio «Fraude, mentiras y engaños en el mundo antiguo»: manipulaciones historiográficas; mentiras y simulaciones religiosas, falacias persuasivas en la literatura cristiana antigua: retórica y realidad; impostores que se hacen pasar por otras personas para realizar una carrera política; fraudes contractuales; impostores populares y fraudes legales en la Roma tardorrepublicana; Vigilar y castigar: publicanos, contratistas, senadores y otros defraudadores en el mundo romano; supuestas falsificaciones testamentarias; engaños propagandísticos; fraudes arqueológicos. El ámbito cronológico abarca desde la protohistoria hasta la Antigüedad tardía.

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El VI Coloquio Internacional de Historia Antigua, que tuvo lugar los días 9 y 10 de junio de 2011... more El VI Coloquio Internacional de Historia Antigua, que tuvo lugar los días 9 y 10 de junio de 2011 en la Universidad de Zaragoza, reunió a dieciséis especialistas procedentes de las universidades de Nottingham, Hamburgo, Milán, Verona, Toulouse, Palma de Mallorca, Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona y Zaragoza, que reflexionaron sobre perdedores en el mundo antiguo desde perspectivas diversas, como viene siendo la norma en estos coloquios, que tienen en el debate y la reflexión contrastada su propósito esencial. Las ponencias se centraron tanto en el mundo greco-oriental como, sobre todo, en el romano.

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En su novela El cielo protector, Paul Bowles distingue entre el turista y el viajero. Mientras el... more En su novela El cielo protector, Paul Bowles distingue entre el turista y el viajero. Mientras el turista siempre sabe cuándo y cómo volverá a su hogar, el viajero se lanza a la aventura sin conocer exactamente ni su ruta ni siquiera si algún día regresará a su casa. En el mundo antiguo, el viaje tenía siempre un punto de descubrimiento, un componente intrínseco de aventura motivada por las condiciones de los desplazamientos y, muchas veces, por el desconocimiento de los lugares a los que el viajero pretendía arribar. El viaje en la Antigüedad fue el tema del que se ocupó el V Coloquio Internacional de Historia Antigua Universidad de Zaragoza, que se celebró entre los días 4 y 6 de junio de 2009 en la Biblioteca de Humanidades María Moliner de la Universidad de Zaragoza bajo el título Viajeros, peregrinos y aventureros en el mundo antiguo. En él participaron estudiosos procedentes de diversas universidades y centros de investigación españoles y extranjeros: Münster (Alemania), Ohio (Estados Unidos), Foggia (Italia), CSIC de Roma, Málaga, Vitoria, Salamanca, Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, Barcelona y Zaragoza. Desde diversas perspectivas todos ellos abordaron el tema del viaje y el viajero en la Antigüedad, y este volumen recoge las comunicaciones presentadas durante el coloquio, celebrado como viene siendo habitual con carácter bienal.

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Este volumen contiene las actas de las ponencias presentadas al IV Coloquio Internacional de Hist... more Este volumen contiene las actas de las ponencias presentadas al IV Coloquio Internacional de Historia Antigua Universidad de Zaragoza, celebrado los días 4 y 5 de junio de 2007. Como las ediciones anteriores, de periodicidad bianual, esta reunión científica ha resultado de la fructífera colaboración entre el Centro para el Estudio de la Interdependencia Provincial en la Antigüedad Clásica (CEIPAC) de la Universidad de Barcelona y el Área de Historia Antigua del Departamento de Ciencias de la Antigüedad de la Universidad de Zaragoza. El tema escogido para el coloquio que ahora ve la luz fue “Formae Mortis: El tránsito de la vida a la muerte en las sociedades antiguas”. Nuestro objetivo, al invitar a especialistas españoles y extranjeros a llevar a cabo una reflexión conjunta, era ejemplificar las diversas modalidades, intenciones o representaciones de esa transición -esencial como ninguna por suprema e ineluctable- partiendo de un presupuesto metodológico: el de considerar la muerte como un proceso, como un espacio/tiempo de liminalidad, mas que como un suceso.

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Entre los diversos hitos que han supuesto en la historia de la humanidad avances decisivos en muy... more Entre los diversos hitos que han supuesto en la historia de la humanidad avances decisivos en muy diferentes ámbitos, económicos, sociales o culturales, resulta de extraordinaria importancia el momento en el que un grupo de individuos se entendieron a sí mismos como miembros de pleno derecho de una comunidad, y se dotaron en consecuencia de unas normas de convivencia y de unas leyes a las que se sometieron, con privilegios y obligaciones. Significó el paso trascendental de súbditos a ciudadanos, el tránsito de unas sociedades gobernadas por reyes a otras administradas por conciudadanos, que podemos denominar de manera genética como repúblicas.

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Los departamentos de Historia Antigua de las universidades de Zaragoza y Barcelona celebran, cada... more Los departamentos de Historia Antigua de las universidades de Zaragoza y Barcelona celebran, cada dos años, un congreso sobres temas de actualidad, dentro de la investigación del mundo clásico. El volumen recoge las contribuciones de un numeroso grupo de investigadores sobre las diversas formas de entender los movimientos poblacionales en la antigüedad clásica y su significado social y político, considerando tanto las migraciones forzosas como las voluntarias, tanto las de grandes grupos como las individuales

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La presente monografía es el resultado de la colaboración entre estudiosos de la Antigüedad de la... more La presente monografía es el resultado de la colaboración entre estudiosos de la Antigüedad de las Universidades de Barcelona y Zaragoza en el marco del I Coloquio de Historia Antigua Universidad de Zaragoza sobre el tema "Religión y propaganda política en el mundo romano" celebrado en Junio del 2001. En el coloquio participaron trece investigadores procedentes de diversas universidades españolas, así como de la Universidad Eötvös Lorand de Budapest (Hungría), todos ellos especialistas en diversos aspectos relacionados con el tema propuesto.

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Papers by Francisco Pina Polo

P. Buongiorno - M.T. Schettino (eds.), Poteri pubblici, conflitti istituzionali e cultura politica dopo Sulla, Macerata, 163-184, 2023

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M. García Morcillo – C. Rosillo-López (eds.), The Real State Market in the Roman World, Oxford – Nueva York, 131-147, 2023

The villae that both Cicero and other members of the Roman elite possessed in various regions of ... more The villae that both Cicero and other members of the Roman elite possessed in various regions of Italy were first and foremost sources of income for their owners. However, like their domus in Rome, these villae were also a significant instrument of prestige and self-representation. The social life in the villae also fulfilled a substantial "political" function. This chapter takes a snapshot of a short yet intensive period, between April and July of 44 BCE, when Cicero spent most of his time outside Rome, going from one of his estates in Latium and Campania to another. Then, as now, interpersonal relationships played a fundamental role in politics, and so it was always significant to hold face-to-face meetings. To upper-class Romans it was important to participate in this temporary community by spending at least a few days in each of those places. This resulted in constant invitations to each other's homes. Such meetings allowed for the exchange of first-hand information, but also for attempts to directly and indirectly influence a certain trend of opinion. The aim was to become updated about the political situation from different perspectives and to anticipate future movements of both allies and adversaries. As interrelated networks of exclusive communication, upper-class villae contributed thus to the shaping of information as a particularly precious commodity. *** Although the accumulation of money and movable goods did play its role in Rome society, wealth, as in all pre-modern societies, predominantly resided in acquisition of real estate. While there were different ways of obtaining wealth (bequests, commercial activities, booty, agricultural income, etc.), there generally was a close connection between power and wealth: wealth opened up the path to power, and power facilitated the creation of a network of influence and personal relationships that, in turn, became a source of further affluence. Wealth and power, then, went hand in hand, mutually supporting each other in Republican politics and society more broadly. 1 Cicero provides a particularly illustrative example of this trend since we can follow in some detail when and how he accumulated various properties throughout his life. One clearly sees that most of them were obtained, by various means, after he had held the consulship in 63. This cannot be chalked up

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in F. Marco Simón – F. Pina Polo – J. Remesal Rodríguez (eds.), La pobreza en el mundo antiguo, Barcelona, 125-139, 2022

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Klio 104, 234-252, 2022

The fragmentary inscription on the ludi saeculares contains mention of two senatus consulta of ye... more The fragmentary inscription on the ludi saeculares contains mention of two senatus consulta of year 17 BCE. This paper gives new arguments for identifying the five known consulars heading the drafting commission of the senatus consultum of 17 February: M. Iunius Silanus (cos. 25), Cn. Cornelius Lentulus (cos. 18), L. Marcius Censorinus (cos. 39), C. Asinius Pollio (cos. 40) and L. Vinicius (cos. suff. 33). This list challenges the accepted notion that senators named as members of the drafting commissions of senatus consulta (and other official documents) were always arranged according to their seniority (i.e., who had held a given office earliest). Such an open new approach could question or even significantly alter the chronology of Roman magistracies that has been accepted on the basis of seniority hierarchy so far.

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C. Courrier, J.-P. Guilhembet, N. Laubry y D. Palombi (eds.), Rome, archéologie et histoire urbaine: trente ans après l’Urbs (1987), Roma, 305-320, 2022

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Anabases. Traditions et Réceptions de l’Antiquité 34, 129-143, 2021

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H. Beck – J. Gallego – C. García Mac Gaw – F. Pina Polo (eds.), Encuentros con las élites del Mediterráneo antiguo. Liderazgo, estilos de vida, legitimidad, Buenos Aires, 215-234, 2021

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G. Urso (ed.), Popularitas. Ricerca del consenso e “populismo” in Roma antica, Roma, 127-162, 2021

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F. Pina Polo y A. Díaz Fernández, The Quaestorship in the Roman Republic. Berlin, Klio Beihefte, De Gruyter, 2019. ISBN 978-3-11-066341-9, 2019

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P. Buongiorno - M.T. Schettino (eds.), Poteri pubblici, conflitti istituzionali e cultura politica dopo Sulla, Macerata, 163-184, 2023

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M. García Morcillo – C. Rosillo-López (eds.), The Real State Market in the Roman World, Oxford – Nueva York, 131-147, 2023

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in F. Marco Simón – F. Pina Polo – J. Remesal Rodríguez (eds.), La pobreza en el mundo antiguo, Barcelona, 125-139, 2022

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Klio 104, 234-252, 2022

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C. Courrier, J.-P. Guilhembet, N. Laubry y D. Palombi (eds.), Rome, archéologie et histoire urbaine: trente ans après l’Urbs (1987), Roma, 305-320, 2022

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Anabases. Traditions et Réceptions de l’Antiquité 34, 129-143, 2021

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H. Beck – J. Gallego – C. García Mac Gaw – F. Pina Polo (eds.), Encuentros con las élites del Mediterráneo antiguo. Liderazgo, estilos de vida, legitimidad, Buenos Aires, 215-234, 2021

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G. Urso (ed.), Popularitas. Ricerca del consenso e “populismo” in Roma antica, Roma, 127-162, 2021

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in A. Díaz Fernández (ed.), Provinces and Provincial Command in Republican Rome: Genesis, Development and Governance, Colección Libera Res Publica 4, Sevilla – Zaragoza, 145-164, 2021

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Hermes 149, 177-205, 2021

For decades, a remarkable number of publications have been devoted to the socalled Epistulae ad C... more For decades, a remarkable number of publications have been devoted to the socalled Epistulae ad Caesarem. Most have focused on the question of whether they are authentic or forgeries, and only a few have analysed them as a source for valuable historical evidence. This paper intends to demonstrate that the letters could certainly have been written in the middle of the first century BCE and that Sallust could indeed be the author. The letters, particularly Ep. 2, show that there were alternative political agendas and provide a better understanding of Sallust as a politician and historian, as well as of the political debate surrounding the outbreak of the civil war and Caesar's rule.

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in C. Rosillo-López – M. García Morcillo (eds.), Managing Information in the Roman Economy, Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies, New York, 43-59, 2021

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en J.-M. David – F. Hurlet (eds.), L’auctoritas à Rome. Une notion constitutive de la culture politique, ed. Ausonius, Burdeos, 155-169, 2020

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C. Balmaceda (ed.), Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic, Leiden, 138-152, 2020

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Francisco Pina Polo (ed.), THE TRIUMVIRAL PERIOD CIVIL WAR, POLITICAL CRISIS AND SOCIOECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS, 2020

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S. Segenni (ed.), False notizie... fake news e storia romana, Milano, 2019

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G. Urso (ed.) Popolo e potere nel mondo antico, 2005

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Sine iniuria in pace vivatur: A construción do Imperio durante os xulio-claudios, 2018

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Ex Baetica Romam. Homenaje a José Remesal Rodríguez, Barcelona, 2020

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Journal of Roman Studies 108, 99-114, 2018

The use of the suffect consulship began to change with Caesar in 45 B.C., after a number of decad... more The use of the suffect consulship began to change with Caesar in 45 B.C., after a number of decades in which no suffect consul had been elected. The ofce altered dramatically during the triumviral period. The triumvirs openly made use of the suffect consulship as a means of rewarding loyalty. Many of the suffect consuls, who were no longer elected by the people, but designated in advance by the triumvirs, were homines novi who belonged to previously unknown and insignicant Roman or Italian families. Increasing the number of consuls each year eliminated de facto the traditional annuality of the ofce and reduced its authority. The implicit consequence of these actions was a gradual devaluation of the consulship. The suffect consulship was therefore a powerful tool in the hands of the triumvirs for strengthening their political position, weakening the old aristocracy and giving birth to a new elite based more rmly on personal loyalties. The suffect consulship, an institution which had existed throughout the Roman Republic, changed dramatically during the triumviral age. This happened in the context of a period in which successive wars were fought by Roman armies across the Mediterranean under the command of imperatores who represented different political interests and, at the same time, struggled for power at Rome. Our surviving accounts narrate the wars in detail but devote little space to internal politics at Rome, making it difcult to reconstruct how republican institutions developed in the years before Octavian's victory at Actium. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the suffect consulship as an example of what was happening to republican magistracies under the triumvirs. In particular, it focuses on the reasons why suffect consuls were nominated, the procedure by which they were designated, who these suffecti were, and the nature of their political careers up to that point.

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S. Alfayé / F. Pina Polo (eds.) DIOSES, SACERDOTES Y MAGOS EN EL MUNDO ANTIGUO. HOMENAJE A FRANCISCO MARCO SIMÓN. Bandue XI, 2018

En noviembre del año 43 fue instituido el Triunvirato. Entre las potestades de los triunviros es... more En noviembre del año 43 fue instituido el Triunvirato. Entre las potestades de los triunviros estaba la de nombrar al menos una parte de los magistrados anuales. Los triunviros utilizaron la designación de magistrados como un medio de recompensar a individuos que les habían sido fieles en los años anteriores. Lo mismo sucedió con los colegios sacerdotales. Los sacerdocios sirvieron a la nueva elite política como trampolín de ascenso social. Los triunviros explotaron su potestad para designar magistrados y sacerdotes como instrumento para premiar lealtades y conformar una nueva aristocracia leal, que tras Accio se convirtió necesariamente en aristocracia leal al futuro Augusto.

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Libera Res Publica 10, 2023

In 133 and 123/122 BCE, the Gracchan reforms opened three cans of worms, pitting the Roman landow... more In 133 and 123/122 BCE, the Gracchan reforms opened three cans of worms, pitting the Roman landowning elites against their poorer compatriots, Roman economic interests against those of the Italian allies, and senators against equestrians. As these cumulative divisions threatened to coalesce into a perfect storm, the noble and wealthy tribune of the plebs M. Livius Drusus in 91 boldly proposed a comprehensive if costly New Deal. The eventual annulment of Drusus’ visionary reform package set the stage for the armed rebellion of Rome’s key Italic allies. Even before the conclusion of this gargantuan struggle in 87, the deep divisions Drusus and his backers had sought to resolve, compounded
by political discontent among the enfranchised Italians, caused the
Roman polity to descend into a series of devastating civil wars, terminated in 82/81 by Sulla’s vindictive victory and reactionary new settlement. Offering a novel narrative analysis of the pivotal events of this well-known but often poorly understood period, this book seeks to demonstrate how the time from Livius Drusus’ tribunate of the plebs to Sulla’s unparalleled dictatorship was marked by momentous reform and experimentation and suggests that the former’s fateful failure arguably represents the moment the Romans lost their ancestral Republic.

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The collection Libera Res Publica (LRP) intends to publish quality monographs on the Roman Republ... more The collection Libera Res Publica (LRP) intends to publish quality monographs on the Roman Republic (509-30 B.C.), both individual and collective books as well as proceedings of conferences. The collection seeks a clear international projection, aims to be in the medium term an international reference in studies on the Roman Republic, and therefore admits manuscripts in Spanish, English, French, German and Italian. As for the subject matter, the collection is interested in institutional, political, social, economic, historiographic, cultural and gender aspects relating to the Roman Republic.

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by Libera Res Publica: Foro de historiadores españoles de la República romana, Enrique García Riaza, Toni Ñaco del Hoyo, Gerard Ventós, Andoni Llamazares, Ferran Sisa Martínez, Adur Intxaurrandieta Ormazabal, Bernat Montoya, Alejandro Díaz Fernández, Francisco Pina Polo, Cristina Rosillo-López, Marta García Morcillo, María García-Magán, Rebeca Cordeiro Macenlle, Luis Silva Reneses, Pierre Sánchez, Ana Mayorgas Rodriguez, Pedro Lopez Barja de Quiroga, Gustavo Alberto Vivas García, and Unai González Pinedo

Forthcoming seminar II LIBERA RES PUBLICA

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Sevilla, 24-25 de septiembre 2015

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