Financial Penalties in the Roman Republic : : a study of confiscations of individual property, public sales, and fines (509-58 BC) / / by Sofia Piacentin.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum
• VerfasserIn: Piacentin, Sofia,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) :; illustrations (some color), color map, charts.

"Private property in Rome effectively measures the suitability of each individual to serve in the army and to compete in the political arena. What happens then, when a Roman citizen is deprived of his property? Financial penalties played a crucial role in either discouraging or effectively punishing wrongdoers. This book offers the first coherent discussion of confiscations and fines in the Roman Republic by exploring the political, social, and economic impact of these punishments on private wealth"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Confiscation or consecration of property? -- Fines and Roman public finances -- Public fines in Italy outside Rome -- Confiscations of property and fines in the military sphere -- The use of financial penalties in the political arena -- Confiscations of property in civil conflicts -- Confiscations of property and the declaration of hostes publici -- The Sullan proscriptions : a point of no return? -- Disclosing confiscations and public sales in the late republic : Cicero's De domo sua -- Conclusions.