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Municipal Virtues in the Roman Empire
The Evidence of Italian Honorary Inscriptions
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Table of 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
- 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