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  • Concluding Remarks

  • Bart Danon, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    Wealth, Office and Rank in Roman Italy
    Published online:
    23 July 2025
    Print publication:
    17 July 2025, pp 202-205
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    This chapter recapitulates the main findings of this study, relating them to the concepts of ‘oligarchy’, the boni and different forms of social power.

The Roman Elite and the End of the Republic
  • The Boni, the Nobles and Cicero
  • Henrik Mouritsen
  • Published online:
    15 December 2022
    Print publication:
    22 December 2022
  • The boni, the wealthy, but largely non-political, section of the Roman elite, have hitherto escaped scholarly attention. This book draws a detailed and rounded picture of the boni, their identity, values and interests, also tracing their – often tense - relationship to the political class, whose inner circle of noble families eventually lost their trust and support. Concerns about property played a central part in this process, and the book explores key Roman concepts associated with property, including frugality, luxury, patrimony, debt and the all-important otium that ensured the peaceful enjoyment of private possessions. Through close readings of Cicero and other republican writers, a new narrative of the 'fall of the republic' emerges. The shifting allegiances of the wider elite of boni viri played an important part in the events that brought an end to the republic and ushered in a new political system better attuned to their material interests.