The lack of evidence has proved to be the greatest obstacle involved in reconstructing the quaestorship and has probably discouraged scholars from undertaking a large-scale study of the office. As a consequence, a comprehensive study of the quaestorship has long been a desideratum: this book aims to fill this gap in the scholarship.
The book contains a study of the quaestorship throughout the Roman Republic, both in Italy (particularly at Rome) and in the overseas provinces. It includes a history of the office, an analysis of its role within the cursus honorum and its larger importance for the Roman constitution as well as the prosopography of all quaestors known during the Republican period based on the literary, epigraphic and numismatic evidence.
The quaestorship was always an office for beginners who aspired to follow a political career and hence served as institutional entrance to the senate. Despite their youth, quaestors were endowed with functions of great significance at Rome and abroad, such as the control and supervision of Rome's finances. As the book shows, the quaestorship was a prominent and essential part of the Roman administration.

Auteur
Francisco Pina Polo, Universidad Zaragoza, Spain; Alejandro Díaz Fernández, Universidad Málaga, Spain.

Résumé

Die Klio-Beihefte wurden 1903 gegründet und etablierten sich rasch als eine der führenden Reihen auf dem Feld der historischen Altertumswissenschaften. Nach jahrzehntelanger Unterbrechung erscheinen sie wieder seit 1999 als Neue Folge und geben herausragenden Forschungen zur Geschichte der griechischen und römischen Welt ein geeignetes Forum. Dies gilt für das gesamte Spektrum von stärker quellenbasierten bis zu prononciert theoriegeleiteten Untersuchungen sowie für innovative Studien aus den Nachbardisziplinen der Alten Geschichte.