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

"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 puni...

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Superior document:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum
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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.
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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.