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- From: boschung@methp1.epfl.ch (Jacques Boschung)
- Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
- Subject: Concept of "patricians" in the early Empire...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.160936@methp1.epfl.ch>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:09:36 GMT
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- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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- Reading a biography on the Roman Emperor Marcus-Aurelius, I was a bit
- surprised to see that the author referred him as a "patrician" plenty of times
- not in a general sense but in the Roman acceptation of the word. I really do
- not understand this label :
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- - first, M-A was a nativ of Spain
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- - second, the concept of "patrician" so far I know has practically no
- more substance at that time. At the end of the Republic they were
- as many members of the nobilitas coming from the Plebeians as from
- the Patricians. In the Empire with the hierarchie of the society by
- the means of the census new castes were created but no more place,
- I think for this old title.
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- I have to say that the writer, Pierre Grimal, is a well-known and serious
- specialist in that area (anyway for people speaking french) so this can't be
- a mistake.
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- Is anybody able to explain me this mystery ?
-
- JB
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