TY  - BOOK
AU  - Forbis,Elizabeth
TI  - Municipal Virtues in the Roman Empire: The Evidence of Italian Honorary Inscriptions
T2  - Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde Series
SN  - 9783110954449
AV  - DG78 -- .F67 1996eb 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Berlin/Boston
PB  - De Gruyter, Inc.
KW  - Inscriptions, Latin -- Italy
KW  - Rome -- Moral conditions
KW  - Rome -- Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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