Album senatorum vol. II. Senators of the Severan Period (193–235 AD). A Prosopographic Study. (original) (raw)
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Undoubtedly, the last comprehensive study on the Roman Senate elites, i.e. consuls and consulars, which is so important in view of the history of the Severan period, was the prosopographical study by P.M.M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander 111 . This is a continuation of G. Alföldy's deliberations (Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter den Antoninen. Prosopo graphische Untersuchungen zur senatorischen Führungsschicht 112 ) related to an earlier period -that of the Antonines. Both of these books constitute a solid foundation in contemporary science for the evaluation of the changes that this group of senators had undergone in these two periods. However, recent research has contributed many new findings and new information has been supplemented. Hence, these issues need to be re-examined 113 .
The Roman Senate as arbiter during the Second Century bc Two exemplary case studies: the Cippus Abellanus and the Polcevera Tablet, 2019
In the wider context of the border conflicts that involve Rome as a third authority super partes, for which there is already evidence in the second century BC, two epigraphic documents stand out for the peculiarities distinguishing them from all others: the so-called tabula of Polcevera (concerning a dispute between Genuates and Viturii Langenses) and the cippus Abellanus (related to a border dispute between Nolani and Abellani and written in Oscan). They make us aware of the political and municipal dynamics underlying the complex principle of Roman arbitration, often required to resolve territorial disputes, which were gradually evolving as Rome opened up to the East. What role did the Rome senate play in such disputes? What exactly was the function of the referees sent by the City to settle the disputes with a super partes judgment? What was the importance of the agrarian reform of the Gracchi and the realisation of road axes in the acuity of such antagonisms? These are the questions to which this work tries to provide an answer.
Damnatio Memoriae of the High-Ranking Senatorial Office-Holders in the Later Roman Empire, 337–415
De Gruyter, 2022
Bodnaruk, Mariana. “Damnatio Memoriae of the High-ranking Senatorial Office-holders in the Later Roman Empire, 337-415.” In: Fragmented Memory: Omission, Selection, and Loss in Ancient and Medieval Literature and History. Eds. Nicoletta Bruno, Martina Filosa, and Giulia Marinelli (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022), 185-214. Unlike damnatio memoriae of the emperors/usurpers, the memory sanctions against the senatorial elite in the later Roman Empire have received modest attention of historians. This paper seeks to reconstruct aristocratic involvement in the empire’s memory politics in the time of the administrative and cultural change accelerated by the Constantinian reforms. With damnatio memoriae defined as the act of publically erasing a person’s memory, I assess the late Roman practice through honorific sculpture and written sources as well as rarely studied impact on their audience. This paper intends to go beyond the specialized compartments of the disciplines (epigraphy, art history, philology) and to make connections among the seemingly disparate phenomena of social life mediated by honorific monuments and literature.
A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic, 2021
Introduction to Chapter 21, "Other Magistrates, Officlals, and Apparitores" . . . . "If the annually elected consuls and tribunes count as the stars of Rome’s political theatre (culture), then one must also account for the huge number of supporting actors. In other words, while our gaze is normally drawn to the magistrates whose activities captured the interest of ancient authors, we have to look beyond them to discern the vast majority of participants in Roman political culture: men who were on the scene every day, performing important yet mundane work so familiar to Roman authors that they rarely thought to mention them. These include the minor officials in the vigintisexvirate (board of 26 men), quaestors and aediles who, in most cases, were working their way up the ladder – the cursus honorum – towards ‘star billing’. In addition, there were others in the ‘crew’ who provided the nuts-and-bolts expertise necessary to keep the show running from year to year: these were Rome’s salaried assistants (apparitores), public servants attached to the annual magistrates, whose work was essential to the production’s success." (21.1) . . . . . . This chapter provides a concise but thorough examination of the cursus honorum (21.2); electioneering and elections (21.3); the vigintisexvirate, including Decemviri stlitibus iudicandis, Quattuorviri viis in urbe purgandis, Tresviri monetalis, Tresviri capitales, Duoviri viis extra urbem purgandis, and Quattuor praefecti Capuam Cumas (21.4.1-6); Urban quaestores (21.5); Aediles (plebeian and curule) (21.6); and Apparitores (including scribae, lictores, viatores and praecones) (21.7) all in the context of the wider political culture of the Roman republic, using the most up-to-date research. . . . . . NB: Unfortunately, I am unable to provide even the "submitted" version of the chapter for 24 months after its publication, at which point I will post it on my University-run archive and then post a link to it here.