Mouritsen, Roman elite, Boni and Nobiles

A major new rethink of Roman elite politics and social ranking..

[MH: This is a very good book, almost certainly a very important one too. Though I am not qualified to judge two central arguments about the boni and Cicero, the data here compels me to rethink my prior impressions about Roman rankings. Selfishly I only excerpt sections relevant to my current reading on conceptual origins of ‘rank over status society’ i…