Henrik Mouritsen

The Roman Elite and the End of the Republic

The Boni, the Nobles and Cicero

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reconfiguring the social and political landscape of the late Roman republic, this book discovers the boni as a distinct social and economic class. This has important implications for our understanding of the process that led to the fall of the republic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009180672
• ISBN-10: 1009180673
• Artikelnr.: 73431847

Autorenporträt

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