FRANCISCO PINA POLO is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He is also the author of The Consul at Rome: The Civil Functions of the Consuls in the Roman Republic (Cambridge, 2011), and co-director of the series Libera Res Publica: Monografías sobre la República Romana.

• 1. Facing up to the crisis: consulars during the Hannibalic war (218–202); 2. Consulars between the second Punic war and Sulla's dictatorship (201–82); 3. Consulars between Sulla's dictatorship and the civil war (81–50); 4. Consulars under Caesar's rule and in the Triumviral period (49–31); Conclusions; References; Index of subjects; Index of names.

FRANCISCO PINA POLO is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He is also the author of The Consul at Rome: The Civil Functions of the Consuls in the Roman Republic (Cambridge, 2011), and co-director of the series Libera Res Publica: Monografías sobre la República Romana.

• 1. Facing up to the crisis: consulars during the Hannibalic war (218–202); 2. Consulars between the second Punic war and Sulla's dictatorship (201–82); 3. Consulars between Sulla's dictatorship and the civil war (81–50); 4. Consulars under Caesar's rule and in the Triumviral period (49–31); Conclusions; References; Index of subjects; Index of names.

FRANCISCO PINA POLO is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He is also the author of The Consul at Rome: The Civil Functions of the Consuls in the Roman Republic (Cambridge, 2011), and co-director of the series Libera Res Publica: Monografías sobre la República Romana.

• 1. Facing up to the crisis: consulars during the Hannibalic war (218–202); 2. Consulars between the second Punic war and Sulla's dictatorship (201–82); 3. Consulars between Sulla's dictatorship and the civil war (81–50); 4. Consulars under Caesar's rule and in the Triumviral period (49–31); Conclusions; References; Index of subjects; Index of names.