Leadership and Initiative in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome

Roman M. Frolov (Ph.D. 2013, Lomonosov Moscow State University) is Lecturer in Ancient History at P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Russia. He has published extensively on contiones, magistrates-elect, the suspension from office, and promagistrates in the Roman Republic.Christopher Burden-Strevens (Ph.D. 2015, University of Glasgow) is Lecturer in Roman History at the University of Kent. He has published numerous studies on Roman historiography, most recently his monograph Cassius Dio’s Speeches and the Collapse of the Roman Republic (2020).Contributors are: Henriette van der Blom, Christopher Burden-Strevens, Vera V. Dementyeva, Roman M. Frolov, Oliver Grote, Wolfgang Havener, Karl-J. Hölkeskamp, Alexander V. Makhlaiuk, Hannah Mitchell, Kit Morrell, Katarina Nebelin, Josiah Osgood, Tassilo Schmitt, Catherine Steel, Claudia Tiersch, Lewis Webb, Alexander Yakobson.

• List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionRoman M. FrolovPart 1 Locating Political Initiative in Republican Rome2 Governing a City-State: Magistrates, Assemblies, and Public Space in Republican RomeKarl-J. Hölkeskamp3 Public Opinion and Political Initiative in Republican RomeAlexander YakobsonPart 2 Seniority and Status as Factors of Political Agency4 Acting Up: The Post of Master of the Mint as an Early-Career Move in the Late RepublicChristopher Burden-Strevens5 Consulars, Political Office, and Leadership in the Middle and Late RepublicCatherine SteelPart 3 Women’s Initiative in Roman Politics6 Female Interventions in Politics in the libera res publica: Structures and PracticesLewis Webb7 Urgulania, Plancina, and Livia: Women’s Initiative in Early Imperial PoliticsJosiah OsgoodPart 4 Political Initiative in Emergencies8 “He Took Care of the City and Supported It”: Initiative as a Prerequisite for Fabius’ cunctatioTassilo Schmitt9 Political Initiative during interregna in the Late Roman RepublicVera V. DementyevaPart 5 Leadership at a Time of Change10 Leadership through Letters: Cicero and Cassius’ Correspondence in 44–43 bceHenriette van der Blom11 The Dynamics of Elite Agency in a Post-Caesar World (44–31 bce)Hannah Mitchell12 Seizing Initiative in the Sphere domi: Magistrates, Promagistrates, and the Senate at the Outset of 32 bceRoman M. FrolovPart 6 Fighting for Initiative13 Potentiality through Conflict: Political Initiatives, Conflict, and the Political Evolution of the Roman RepublicOliver Grote14 Losing the Lead: The Crisis of the Late Roman Republic as a Crisis of Senatorial LeadershipClaudia TierschPart 7 Political Initiative outside of Rome15 Late Republican Local Rebellions and Marches against Rome: Agency and Initiative in the “Catilinarian Insurgency”Katarina Nebelin16 Petitioning for Change in the Republican EmpireKit MorrellPart 8 Political Initiative and Leadership in Military Contexts17 Omnia deinde arbitrio militum acta: Political Initiative and Agency of the Army in Late-Republican and Early Imperial RomeAlexander V. Makhlaiuk18 The Emperor and His Generals: Military Agency in the Early PrincipateWolfgang HavenerIndex