Municipal Virtues in the Roman Empire : The Evidence of Italian Honorary Inscriptions.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (308 pages)
- Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde Series ; v.79 .
- Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde Series .
Intro -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Generic Vocabulary of Praise: Fostering Patronage through Exempla -- Honor -- Merita and Beneficia -- Honorary Epithets: Optimus, Dignissimus, Praestantissimus -- II. Financial Generosity -- Descriptions of Private Munificence -- Munificentia, Liberalitas and Largitio -- Benignitas and Bontias -- III. Personal Motivations for Patronage -- Amor and Adfectio -- Benevolentia and Spes -- Voluntas and Studium -- Obsequium and Reverentia -- Honorificentia -- Pietas -- IV. Administrative Virtues -- Administrative Integrity -- Civic Service -- Political Influence -- V. Virtues and Epithets of Personal Character -- Modestia and Verecundia -- Pudicitia, Castitas and Probitas -- Singularis, Incomparabilis, Rarissimus -- Conclusion -- Virtues in Action -- Choice of Vocabulary -- Virtues and Social Context -- Regional and Chronological Observations -- Appendices -- 1. Corpus of Inscriptions -- 2. Regional Distribution of Inscriptions -- 3. Chronological Distribution of Inscriptions -- 4. Social Make-up and Distribution of Honorands -- 5. Social Make-up and Distribution of Dedicators -- 6. Attribution of Terms of Praise by Type of Dedicator -- 7. Chronological Distribution of Key Terms of Praise -- 8. Comparative Virtues from the Literary Exempta and the Coins of Antoninus Pius and Septimius Severas -- Bibliography -- Indices.
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Inscriptions, Latin -- Italy. Rome -- Moral conditions. Rome -- Social life and customs.