Leadership and Initiative in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome (Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, 453)

"What does it mean to be a leader? This collection of seventeen studies breaks new ground in our understanding of leadership in ancient Rome by re-evaluating the difference between those who began a political action and those who followed or reacted. In a significant change of approach, this volume shifts the focus from archetypal "leaders" to explore the potential for individuals of different ranks, social statuses, ages, and genders to seize initiative. In so doing, the contributors provide new insight into the ways in which the ability to initiate communication, invent solutions, and prompt others to act resonated in critical moments of Roman history"-- Provided by publisher ‎Contents ‎Figures ‎Abbreviations ‎Notes on Contributors ‎Chapter 1. Introduction (Frolov) ‎Part 1. Locating Political Initiative in Republican Rome ‎Chapter 2. Governing a City-State: Magistrates, Assemblies, and Public Space in Republican Rome (Hölkeskamp) ‎Chapter 3. Public Opinion and Political Initiative in Republican Rome (Yakobson) ‎Part 2. Seniority and Status as Factors of Political Agency ‎Chapter 4. Acting Up: The Post of Master of the Mint as an Early-Career Move in the Late Republic (Burden-Strevens) ‎Chapter 5. Consulars, Political Office, and Leadership in the Middle and Late Republic (Steel) ‎Part 3. Women’s Initiative in Roman Politics ‎Chapter 6. Female Interventions in Politics in the libera res publica: Structures and Practices (Webb) ‎Chapter 7. Urgulania, Plancina, and Livia: Women’s Initiative in Early Imperial Politics (Osgood) ‎Part 4. Political Initiative in Emergencies ‎Chapter 8. “He Took Care of the City and Supported It”: Initiative as a Prerequisite for Fabius’ cunctatio (Schmitt) ‎Chapter 9. Political Initiative during interregna in the Late Roman Republic (Dementyeva) ‎Part 5. Leadership at a Time of Change ‎Chapter 10. Leadership through Letters: Cicero and Cassius’ Correspondence in 44–43bce (van der Blom) ‎Chapter 11. The Dynamics of Elite Agency in a Post-Caesar World (44–31bce) (Mitchell) ‎Chapter 12. Seizing Initiative in the Sphere domi: Magistrates, Promagistrates, and the Senate at the Outset of 32bce (Frolov) ‎Part 6. Fighting for Initiative ‎Chapter 13. Potentiality through Conflict: Political Initiatives, Conflict, and the Political Evolution of the Roman Republic (Grote) ‎Chapter 14. Losing the Lead: The Crisis of the Late Roman Republic as a Crisis of Senatorial Leadership (Tiersch) ‎Part 7. Political Initiative outside of Rome ‎Chapter 15. Late Republican Local Rebellions and Marches against Rome: Agency and Initiative in the “Catilinarian Insurgency” (Nebelin) ‎Chapter 16. Petitioning for Change in the Republican Empire (Morrell) ‎Part 8. Political Initiative and Leadership in Military Contexts ‎Chapter 17. Omnia deinde arbitrio militum acta: Political Initiative and Agency of the Army in Late-Republican and Early Imperial Rome (Makhlaiuk) ‎Chapter 18. The Emperor and His Generals: Military Agency in the Early Principate (Havener) ‎Index This Volume Breaks New Ground By Exploring How The Political Actors Of Different Formal Statuses, Age, And Gender Were Able To Take The Lead In Ancient Rome Through Initiating Communication, Proposing New Solutions, And Prompting Others To Act.