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Reconfiguring the social and political landscape of the late Roman republic, this book discovers the boni as a distinct social and economic class. This has important implications for our understanding of the process that led to the fall of the republic.
List of contents
Introduction; Part I. The Boni in the Late Republic: 1. Lost in translation: modern interpretations of the Boni; 2. Boni et Locupletes; 3. Who were the Boni?; 4. Boni and Equites in the late republic; 5. The Boni in Roman politics and public life; Part II. Property and Politics: 6. Wealth and morality revisited; 7. Boni: the 'Gentlemen' of republican Rome; 8. Boni and Improbi: the moral construction of Roman politics; 9. Otium and Tranquillitas: the politics of the Boni; 10. Vita et Bona: property and security; 11. The road to perdition: Egestas and Aes Alienum; 12. 'Egentes Sumptuosi Nobiles': politics and debt; Part III. The Boni and the End of the Republic: 13. Boni and Nobiles; 14. The power of the Nobiles; 15. 'Boni Non Sequentur': The Boni and the end of the republic; 16. Cicero and the formation of an alternative; 17. Epilogue: the Boni and Augustus
About the author
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).
