Ayelet Haimson Lushkov is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. She studies the Latin literature of ancient Rome, focusing especially on historical accounts of the Roman republic. She is currently working on two book projects on Livy's monumental history of ancient Rome, the first systematic study of Livy's citation practices and the first English commentary since the nineteenth century on Book 22. She is co-editor, with William Brockliss, Pramit Chaudhuri and Katherine Wasdin, of Reception and the Classics (2012), and her work has also appeared in The Huffington Post and The Guardian.

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• Introduction: exemplarity, magistracy, and narrative; 1. Magisterial authority and the politics of affection; 2. Authority in crisis: the Caudine Forks; 3. Elections and the generation of exempla; 4. Elections as narratives of magistracy; Epilogue: staging authority.

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. She studies the Latin literature of ancient Rome, focusing especially on historical accounts of the Roman republic. She is currently working on two book projects on Livy's monumental history of ancient Rome, the first systematic study of Livy's citation practices and the first English commentary since the nineteenth century on Book 22. She is co-editor, with William Brockliss, Pramit Chaudhuri and Katherine Wasdin, of Reception and the Classics (2012), and her work has also appeared in The Huffington Post and The Guardian.

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• Introduction: exemplarity, magistracy, and narrative; 1. Magisterial authority and the politics of affection; 2. Authority in crisis: the Caudine Forks; 3. Elections and the generation of exempla; 4. Elections as narratives of magistracy; Epilogue: staging authority.

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. She studies the Latin literature of ancient Rome, focusing especially on historical accounts of the Roman republic. She is currently working on two book projects on Livy's monumental history of ancient Rome, the first systematic study of Livy's citation practices and the first English commentary since the nineteenth century on Book 22. She is co-editor, with William Brockliss, Pramit Chaudhuri and Katherine Wasdin, of Reception and the Classics (2012), and her work has also appeared in The Huffington Post and The Guardian.

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• Introduction: exemplarity, magistracy, and narrative; 1. Magisterial authority and the politics of affection; 2. Authority in crisis: the Caudine Forks; 3. Elections and the generation of exempla; 4. Elections as narratives of magistracy; Epilogue: staging authority.