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1 online resource (307 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Band 79
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Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 79.
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| Note |
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-271) and indexes. |
| 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 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"" |
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""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"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Rome -- Moral conditions.
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Rome (Empire) |
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Moral conditions. |
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Rome -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Inscriptions, Latin -- Italy.
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Inscriptions, Latin. |
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Italy. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Forbis, Elizabeth. Municipal virtues in the Roman Empire 9783598776281 |
| ISBN |
9783110954449 (electronic book) |
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3110954443 (electronic book) |
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3519076284 |
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9783598776281 |
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9783519076285 |
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3598776284 |
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