Author: Bernardo, Yvonne Lindjo
Title: Severitas: a study of a Roman virtue in Cicero
Place edition: Chapel Hill
Editor: University of North Carolina
Year edition: 2000
Pages: 372
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Politique - Politica - Politics
Description: [Abstract] The objective of this dissertation is to examine the Roman attitude toward an ancestral virtue that was becoming increasingly controversial during the age of Cicero. The introduction identifies the currently existing confusion concerning severitas, and demonstrates the importance of attaining as precise a definition as possible. Chapter One establishes how strongly severitas was anchored in the ideology of ancient Rome, whereas Chapter Two concentrates on Cicero's own ambivalent attitude toward this virtue. Chapter Three discusses the more public application of severitas, particularly in the legal and administrative fields. The Conclusion focuses on summarizing the findings of this paper, and on determining whether there is any textual evidence for a relationship between cruelty and severitas. Appendix A consists of all the Latin passages that contain some form of the severitas concept in the texts of the Ciceronian epoch. Appendix B gives a brief synopsis of the grammatical distribution of sever - in Cicero, whereas Appendix C shows its distribution by category as well as individual works of Cicero.
Author initials: Bernardo 2000
Title: Severitas: a study of a Roman virtue in Cicero
Place edition: Chapel Hill
Editor: University of North Carolina
Year edition: 2000
Pages: 372
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Politique - Politica - Politics
Description: [Abstract] The objective of this dissertation is to examine the Roman attitude toward an ancestral virtue that was becoming increasingly controversial during the age of Cicero. The introduction identifies the currently existing confusion concerning severitas, and demonstrates the importance of attaining as precise a definition as possible. Chapter One establishes how strongly severitas was anchored in the ideology of ancient Rome, whereas Chapter Two concentrates on Cicero's own ambivalent attitude toward this virtue. Chapter Three discusses the more public application of severitas, particularly in the legal and administrative fields. The Conclusion focuses on summarizing the findings of this paper, and on determining whether there is any textual evidence for a relationship between cruelty and severitas. Appendix A consists of all the Latin passages that contain some form of the severitas concept in the texts of the Ciceronian epoch. Appendix B gives a brief synopsis of the grammatical distribution of sever - in Cicero, whereas Appendix C shows its distribution by category as well as individual works of Cicero.
Author initials: Bernardo 2000
