"The boni - the wealthy, but largely non-political, section of the Roman elite - have hitherto escaped scholarly attention. This book draws a detailed and rounded picture of the boni, their identity, values and interests, also tracing their - often tense - relationship to the political class, whose inner circle of noble families eventually lost their trust and support. Concerns about property played a central part in the process, and the book explores key Roman concepts associated with property, including frugality, luxury, patrimony, debt and the all-important otium that ensured the peaceful…mehr
"The boni - the wealthy, but largely non-political, section of the Roman elite - have hitherto escaped scholarly attention. This book draws a detailed and rounded picture of the boni, their identity, values and interests, also tracing their - often tense - relationship to the political class, whose inner circle of noble families eventually lost their trust and support. Concerns about property played a central part in the process, and the book explores key Roman concepts associated with property, including frugality, luxury, patrimony, debt and the all-important otium that ensured the peaceful enjoyment of private possessions. Through close readings of Cicero and other republican writers, a new narrative of the 'fall of the republic' emerges. The shifting allegiances of the wider elite of boni viri played an important part of the events that brought an end to the republic and ushered in a new political system better attuned to their material interests"--
Henrik Mouritsen is Professor of Roman History at King's College London. He has published widely on aspects of Roman history from local and republican politics to slavery, manumission and epigraphy. His books include Elections, Magistrates and Municipal Elite (1988), Italian Unification (1998), Plebs and Politics in the Late Roman Republic (Cambridge, 2001), The Freedman in the Roman World (Cambridge, 2011) and Politics in the Roman Republic (Cambridge, 2017).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. The Boni in the Late Republic: 1. Lost in translation: modern interpretations of the Boni 2. Boni et Locupletes 3. Who were the Boni? 4. Boni and Equites in the late republic 5. The Boni in Roman politics and public life Part II. Property and Politics: 6. Wealth and morality revisited 7. Boni: the 'Gentlemen' of republican Rome 8. Boni and Improbi: the moral construction of Roman politics 9. Otium and Tranquillitas: the politics of the Boni 10. Vita et Bona: property and security 11. The road to perdition: Egestas and Aes Alienum 12. 'Egentes Sumptuosi Nobiles': politics and debt Part III. The Boni and the End of the Republic: 13. Boni and Nobiles 14. The power of the Nobiles 15. 'Boni Non Sequentur': The Boni and the end of the republic 16. Cicero and the formation of an alternative 17. Epilogue: the Boni and Augustus
Introduction Part I. The Boni in the Late Republic: 1. Lost in translation: modern interpretations of the Boni 2. Boni et Locupletes 3. Who were the Boni? 4. Boni and Equites in the late republic 5. The Boni in Roman politics and public life Part II. Property and Politics: 6. Wealth and morality revisited 7. Boni: the 'Gentlemen' of republican Rome 8. Boni and Improbi: the moral construction of Roman politics 9. Otium and Tranquillitas: the politics of the Boni 10. Vita et Bona: property and security 11. The road to perdition: Egestas and Aes Alienum 12. 'Egentes Sumptuosi Nobiles': politics and debt Part III. The Boni and the End of the Republic: 13. Boni and Nobiles 14. The power of the Nobiles 15. 'Boni Non Sequentur': The Boni and the end of the republic 16. Cicero and the formation of an alternative 17. Epilogue: the Boni and Augustus
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