Restraint, conflict, and the fall of the Roman Republic /

"The Romans harped endlessly on "morality," a cultural feature long ignored as a literary trope or misappreciated as a mere marker of elite status. This book shows how, instead, social norms of personal restraint was part of a habitus of foundational values that acted as meta-rules fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Belonick, Paul (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Social values > Rome. Political culture > Rome. Moderation. Self-control. Rome > Politics and government > 265-30 B.C. Valeurs sociales > Rome. Modération. Maîtrise de soi. Rome > Politique et gouvernement > 265-30 av. J.-C. Moderation Political culture Politics and government Self-control Social values Rome (Empire) Archaeology. History. 265-30 B.C. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Values, terms, and patterns
Shame, respect, and deference
Moderatio, modestia, and temperantia
Setting norms
Restraint, conflict, and collapse
Tiberius Gracchus
Uncertainty
Cataclysm
The lost generation of the Republic
Restraint as accelerator
Epilogue.