| Description |
1 online resource (307 pages) |
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Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Band 79 |
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Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 79.
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| Contents |
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 |
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Administrative IntegrityCivic 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 |
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5. Social Make-up and Distribution of Dedicators6. 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 |
| Notes |
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-271) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Inscriptions, Latin -- Italy.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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Inscriptions, Latin
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Manners and customs
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Moral conditions
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Rome -- Moral conditions
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Rome -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
Italy
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Rome (Empire)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110954449 |
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3110954443 |
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