What is it about?
The article deals with the politics of the Roman Republic. What happened when a public official was not officially deposed but was forced to give up the political initiative? The case of C. Iulius Caesar, who was praetor in 62 BC, offers a great opportunity to find this out.
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Why is it important?
Certainly, the suspension of the praetor Caesar has not been completely neglected in scholarship. However, this paper aims to consider the events of 62 BC not as an attempt of the formal deposition of a magistrate (a traditional approach) but as a result of the struggle for informal political iniative. This allows to understand the case as an example of the long-established political practice rather than as an exception.
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I hope that this publication will allow to test some of my ideas about the political initiative and magistracy in the Roman Republic.
Dr Roman M. Frolov
Aroslavskij gosudarstvennyj universitet imeni P G Demidova
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This page is a summary of: Better than (when) a Magistrate? Caesar’s Suspension from Magisterial Functions in 62 BC, Mnemosyne, October 2017, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-12342265.
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