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 ab...
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 this 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 in the events that brought an end to the republic and ushered in a new political system better attuned to their material interests.
作者简介
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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...
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).
…that the loyalties of the boni were fraying well before the final showdown between Pompey and Caesar; it also indicates that they constituted a discrete segment of society, separate from the senate and the political class, and endowed with interests, identity and allegiances that were entirely their own. (查看原文)
The Romans, or at least those of the elite, tended to associate the ownership of property with personal virtue. As we saw, the connection between wealth and morality was so entrenched that material resources could be invested with intrinsic moral worth, while, conversely, poverty acquired a close affinity to depravity and corruption. (查看原文)
0 有用 Imalion 2023-05-31 16:40:50 河南
Boni是谁？他们又是如何影响罗马共和国的政治的？-- 简单来说类似中国古代语境里的“良家”；他们是古罗马奴隶主贵族共和制度的基本盘和统治的根基
0 有用 Sarina 2025-01-20 21:18:25 德国
从原文出发的好书，提出Boni的问题本身就是很重要的一步！喜欢这种既能把同时期的史料作为一个整体去理解，同时又能从对原文的理解中找到问题所在的作者！直接揪出TLL和OLD的不全面太酷了！