COLLECTION LATOMUS Fondée par M. RENARD en 1939 Continuée par J. DUMORTIER-BIBAUW et C. DEROUX (directeur honoraire) Dirigée par D. ENGELS VOLUME 355 Hans BECK, Martin JEHNE, and John SERRati (eds.) Money and Power in the Roman Republic ÉDitions latomus BRuxelles 2016 98368_CollectionLATOMUS_Beck_Vwk.indd 3 29/03/16 09:48 ISBN 978-90-429-3302-6 D/2016/0602/XX Droits de traduction, de reproduction et d’adaptation réservés pour tous pays. Toute reproduction d’un extrait quelconque, par quelque procédé que ce soit et notamment par photocopie ou microfilm, de même que la diffusion sur Internet ou tout autre réseau semblable sont strictement interdites. 98368_CollectionLATOMUS_Beck_Vwk.indd 4 29/03/16 09:48 COLLECTION LATOMUS VOL. 355 MONEY AND POWER IN THE ROMAN REPUBLIC 98368_CollectionLATOMUS_Beck_Vwk.indd 1 29/03/16 09:48 LATOMUS COLLECTION LATOMUS www.latomus.be Fondée par M. RENARD en 1939 Continuée par J. DUMORTIER-BIBAUW La Revue Latomus, fondée en 1937 par M.-A. KUGENER, L. HERRMANN et M. RENARD, ainsi que la EROUX « Collection Latomus », fondée en 1939 par M. RENARD, sont publiées par la « Société d’études latines et C. D (directeur honoraire) de Bruxelles - Latomus », A.S.B.L. La revue paraît quatre fois par an. Elle forme annuellement un tome Dirigée par D. ENGELS de 500 à 1.200 pages. Chaque article est signé et l’auteur en est seul responsable. Tout ouvrage inté- ressant les études latines adressé à la revue fera l’objet d’un compte rendu dans la mesure du possible, VOLUME 355 mais aucune réplique ne pourra être insérée. Président honoraire de la Société : Carl DEROUX. Conseil d’Administration de la Société : Marie-Astrid BUELENS (secrétaire), Pol DEFOSSE (secrétaire adjoint), David ENGELS (président), Caroline LEVI (trésorière). Hans BECK, Martin JEHNE, and John SERRATI (eds.) Membres de la Société : 1) Membres effectifs : Loïc Borgies, Alexandre BUCHET, Marie-Astrid BUELENS, Arlette BUNNENS-ROOBAERT, Altay CoșKUN, Pol DEFOSSE, Carl DEROUX (directeur général honoraire), Marc DOMINICY, Emmanuel DUPRAZ, David ENGELS (directeur général, rédacteur en chef de la Revue et directeur de la Collection), Money and Power Taffy KOEGMANS, Caroline LEVI, Jacques MARNEFFE, Alain MARTIN, Marcel MEULDER, Dennis PAUSCH, Hervé SAVON, Paul SIMELON, Ghislaine VIRÉ, Didier VIVIERS. 2) Membres adhérents : in the Roman Republic a) membres correspondants : ALLEMAGNE et AUTRICHE : Maria H. DETTENHOFER, Abt. Alte Geschichte, Universität München, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, D-80539 München. — CANADA: C. J. SIMPSON, Archaeology and Classical Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5. — ESPAGNE : J.-M. BLÁZQUEZ, Instituto de Arqueología, Duque de Medinaceli 4, E-28014 Madrid. — ÉTATS- UNIS : James C. ANDERSON, jr., University of Georgia, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Classics, 221 Park Hall, Athens, Georgia 30602 (USA). — FRANCE : H. SAVON, 52, rue Leibniz, F-75018 Paris. — ITALIE : C. PELLEGRINO, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Antiche Moderne e Comparate, Piazza Morlacchi 11, I-06123 Perugia. — MEXIQUE : R. DUARTE CASTILLO, Hidalgo, 35, 58760 Purépero, Mich. México. — ROYAUME-UNI : F. CAIRNS, P.O.BOX 296, Cambridge CB4 3GE (U.K.). — SUISSE: Ph. MUDRY, Montolivet 28, CH-1006 Lausanne. b) autres membres adhérents (belges et étrangers) : N. ADKIN (North Carolina at Chapel Hill), L. BONFANTE (New York), J.-P. BRACHET (Paris IV), R. BRULET (Louvain-la-Neuve), J.-L. CHARLET (Aix-en-Provence), J.-M. CROISILLE (Clermont-Ferrand), Fr. DECREUS (Gent), R. DELMAIRE (Lille III), J. DRINKWATER (Nottingham), R. DUNCAN-JONES (Cambridge, U.K.), G. FREYBURGER (Strasbourg), G. GALIMBERTI BIFFINO (Milano, Sacro Cuore), J. GRAN AYMERICH (Paris, CNRS), Th. HAYE (Göttingen), Y. LE BOHEC (Paris IV), B. LIOU-GILLE (Paris IV), Ed. LIPIńSKI (Leuven), J. LOICQ (Liège), G. MADER (Pretoria), J.-Cl. MARGOLIN (Tours), J. MEYERS (Montpellier III), J. MOORHEAD (Brisbane), P. MURGATROYD (Hamilton), Fr. PASCHOUD (Genève), J. THOMAS (Perpignan), R. TURCAN (Paris IV et Institut de France), Chr. WALDE (Mainz), C. WOLFF (Avignon), Ét. WOLFF (Paris X), F. WULFF ALONSO (Malaga). Comité international scientifique et de lecture : il comprend notamment l’ensemble des membres, effectifs et adhérents, de la Société. Présentation des manuscrits : voir le site électronique <www.latomus.be>. Contact : Prof. David ENGELS, directeur général de Latomus, Boîte Postale 54, B-1170 Bruxelles (Belgique), [email protected]. Abonnements et commandes : Éditions Peeters, Bondgenotenlaan 153, B-3000 Leuven, Belgique. <[email protected]> ; site internet : <http://www.peeters-leuven.be>. Pour l’achat des tomes I à XXI: Schmidt Periodicals GmbH, Dettendorf, D-83075 Bad Feiln bach <[email protected]> ; site internet : <http://www.periodicals.com> Droits de reproduction, de traduction et d’adaptation réservés pour tous pays. © Éditions Latomus, 2016 98368_CollectionLATOMUS_Beck_Vwk.indd 2 29/03/16 09:48 Table of Contents Preface .......................................................................................................... 7 Hans BECK, Martin JEHNE, John SERRATI Introduction .................................................................................................. 9 1. CURRENCIES OF POWER David B. HOLLANDER (Iowa State) Lawyers, Gangs and Money: Portfolios of Power in the Late Republic .... 18 Cristina ROSILLO-LOPEZ (Sevilla) Cash Is King: the Monetization of Roman Politics .................................... 26 Jonathan EDMONDSON (York) Investing in Death: Gladiators as Investment and Currency in the Later Roman Republic .......................................................................................... 37 Brahm KLEINMAN (Princeton) Rhetoric and Money: The lex Aurelia iudiciaria ....................................... 53 Wolfgang BLÖSEL (Duisburg-Essen) Provincial Commands and Money in the Last Decades of the Roman Republic ....................................................................................................... 68 2. MONEY AND STATE ACTION Bruno BLECKMANN (Düsseldorf) Roman War Finances in the Age of the Punic Wars .................................. 82 John SERRATI (McGill/Ottawa) The Financing of Conquest: Roman Interaction with Hellenistic Tax Laws 97 Nathan ROSENSTEIN (Ohio State) Bellum se ipsum alet? Financing Republican Imperialism ........................ 114 98368_CollecLatomus_Beck_00_Contents.indd 5 29/03/16 09:51 6 table OF CONTENTS 3. WEALTH AND STATUS Hans BECK (McGill) Money, Power and Class Coherence: the ambitus Laws of the 180s B.C. 131 Elio LO CASCIO (Sapienza) Property Classes, Elite Wealth and Income Distribution in the Late Republic 153 Francisco PINA POLO (Zaragoza) Cupiditas pecuniae: Wealth and Power in Cicero ..................................... 165 Elizabeth DENIAUX (Paris) The Public Generosity of Aediles and Electoral Success for Praetors and Consuls ......................................................................................................... 178 Martin JEHNE (Dresden) The Economics of Status in the Late Republic .......................................... 188 Bibliography ................................................................................................ 208 Indices ......................................................................................................... 232 98368_CollecLatomus_Beck_00_Contents.indd 6 29/03/16 09:51 Preface This volume originates from a workshop that was hosted by the editors at McGill University in May 2011. Selected from the overall pool of papers presented at the symposium, many of the subsequent articles were revised for publication, some of them substantially, as a result of the scholarly conversation in Montreal and beyond. The present volume thus comprises the research find- ings of individual authors as presented in their respective contributions. At the same time the collection speaks to the team effort and lively exchange among an international community of scholars. The initiative for ‘Money and Power’ came from two separate yet not unrelated observations. Roman republican scholarship has gained much in recent years from the study of high-powered forms of capital (Pierre Bourdieu). The symbolic capital of elite families in particular has been singled out by several scholars in their attempt to disclose the power relations between the senatorial elite and the common people. It has been noted by many that office holding and aristocratic status at Rome were not inheritable as such. Yet the social credit that was gen- erated from a family’s symbolic capital – loosely defined as the sum of all achievements accumulated by all family members in the past – almost guaran- teed its political success over generations. Such a reading of Roman politics has become extremely influential. The fascination with one form of capital, however, has led to a noticeable neglect of other registers in Bourdieu’s canon. After many years of vibrant research on social and symbolic capital, the editors felt that the time was ripe to return to ‘real’ capital and explore the intersection between economy and political culture. This desire was fueled by contemporary experience with the financial sector and its capacity to ignite and accelerate social crises. From the experience with the financial crash of 2008 to the smold- ering United States insolvency crisis to the eminent bankruptcy of Greece, it does not require a Marxist reading of politics and society to acknowledge that financial capital is not only a necessary engine of societal
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