The Senate of Imperial Rome
1st Edition
Published on 31. January 2022
606 pages
978-1-4008-4976-5 (ISBN)
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Richard J. A. Talbert examines the composition, procedure, and functions of the Roman senate during the Principate (30 B.C.-A.D. 238). Although it is of central importance to the period, this great council has not previously received such scholarly treatment. Offering a fresh approach to major ancient authors (Pliny and Tacitus in particular), the book also draws on inscriptions and legal writers never before fully exploited for the study of the senate.
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Content
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One. The Corporate Body
- Chapter 1. The Senate
- 1. Entry
- 2. Advancement
- 3. Withdrawal and restoration
- 4. Composition
- Chapter 2. Senators
- 1. Legal position
- 2. Wealth
- 3. Financial obligations
- 4. Other demands
- 5. Avoidance of a senatorial career by qualified equites
- 6. Estimates of the senate and senators
- Part Two. Sessions
- Chapter 3 . Meeting Places and The Interior of The Curia Julia
- 1. Meeting places
- 2. Seating arrangements and the interior of the Curia Julia
- 3. Senate House staff
- Chapter 4. Attendance
- 1. The total number of senators
- 2. Members' attendance
- 3. Retirement age
- 4. Arms, soldiers, and other non-members
- Chapter 5. The Emperor In The Senate
- 1. The emperor's position
- 2. Attendance and participation by the emperor
- Chapter 6. Routine
- 1. Summons
- 2. Time and duration of sessions
- 3. Confidentiality of sessions
- 4. The annual calendar of business
- 5. Senatorial dress
- Chapter 7. Procedure
- 1. Lex Julia
- 2. Religious ceremonial
- 3. The opening of sessions
- 4. The language of proceedings
- 5. Speeches of thanks
- 6. Communications
- 7. Permission to speak first
- 8. Relatio
- 9. Explanation ("verba facere")
- 10. Interrogatio
- 11. The order in which members were called
- 12. The participation of junior members
- 13. The need to reply
- 14. Delivery of sententiae
- 15. Scope of sententiae
- 16. The right to speak "off the question
- 17. Withdrawal of sententiae
- 18. Delivery of sententiae on oath
- 19. Character of debate
- 20. Expression of feeling
- 21. Style of speaking
- 22. Personal abuse
- 23. The role of the president
- 24. Members' attention
- 25. The taking of votes
- 26. Delegation of business
- 27. Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Procedural Change In The Second Century
- Chapter 9. Records and Their Use
- 1. Form of senatus consulta
- 2. Publication of senatus consulta
- 3. Ada senatus
- 4. Ancient writers' use of acta senatus
- I. Suetonius, Dio, and others
- II. Tacitus
- 5. Known holders of the office ab actis senatus
- Part Three. Functions
- Chapter 10. Elections and The Lot
- 1. Magistracies
- 2. Priesthoods
- 3. The lot
- Chapter 11. Imperial Powers and Other Honors
- 1. Imperial powers and titles
- 2. Honors
- 3. Honorific months
- 4. Triumphs, ovations, triumphal honors, and salutation as imperator
- 5. Statues
- 6. Ornamenta
- 7. Public funeral
- Chapter 12. The Senate's Role In Administration
- 1. Public works and services
- 2. Finance
- 3. Coinage
- 4. Public order
- 5. Religion
- Chapter 1 3 . The Senate's Role In Administration (Continued)
- 6. Provinces
- Chapter 14. Diplomacy, The Army, and Foreign Affairs
- 1. Embassies from the senate
- 2. The reception of embassies and other diplomatic business
- 3. The army and foreign affairs
- Chapter 15. Senatorial Legislation
- 1. Senatus consulta to which titles are devoted in legal works
- 2. Ancient commentaries on senatus consulta and imperial orationes
- 3. Senatus consulta cited by name in legal works
- 4. Imperial orationes cited in legal works
- 5. Senatus consulta and imperial orationes
- A. Datable within a reign
- B. Measures of uncertain date
- I. Senatus consulta and oratio for which there is some indication of date
- II. Senatus consulta for which the earliest citation occurs in second-century jurists
- III. Senatus consulta for which the earliest citation occurs in jurists and imperial constitutions of the third century or later
- 6. General conclusions
- Chapter 16. The Senatorial Court
- 1. Character and scope of senatorial jurisdiction
- 2. Court procedure
- Chapter 17. Conclusion: The Changing Role of The Senate
- Appendices
- 1. Latin and Greek terms for the senate and senators
- 2. The appropriate capital for a senator
- 3. The date on which proconsuls began their year of office
- 4. The attribution of two anonymous speeches to the senate preserved on papyrus
- 5. The duration of hearings in the cases of Marius Priscus and Julius Bassus
- 6. Times of sunrise and sunset at Rome and hours of daylight
- 7. The behavior of M. Aquillius Regulus at the trial of Marius Priscus
- 8. Proconsuls known to have served extended terms
- 9. Table of repetundae cases
- 10. The Roman senate in Rabinnic literature
- Extended Notes
- Information For Non-Specialist Readers
- 1. The Roman emperors from Augustus to Gordian III
- 2. The senatorial magistracies (cursus honorum): a simplified summary
- 3. Glossary of technical terms
- Bibliography
- 1. Senators
- 2. Proconsuls and proconsular legates
- 3. General
- Index of Ancient Sources
- General Index
