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Corruption in the Graeco-Roman World : Re-Reading the Sources

by: Carla-Uhink, F. Faber, E.

Price: 105,95 EURO

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Category: New Books
Code: 30825
ISBN-13: 9783111338606 / 978-3-11-133860-6
ISBN-10: 3111338606 / 3-11-133860-6
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Publication Date: 2024
Publication Place: Berlin
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 344
Book Condition: New
Comments: Volume 1 in the series Twisted Transfers / Twisted Transfers Studies on Ancient Corruption / ISSN: 2941-508X

Corruption in the Graeco-Roman World
Re-Reading the Sources
Edited by: Filippo Carlà-Uhink and Eike Faber
Volume 1 in the series Twisted Transfers

About this book
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Defining corruption is an incredibly difficult task. Being at the same time a concept identifying illegitimate and illegal behaviors, mostly connected to positions of power, and a word indicating a process of (moral) degeneration, corruption is hard to tackle and disentangle – especially when one considers how it is perceived and discussed in public discourse. As deviance from the norm, corruption shifts continuously: different cultures recognize different kinds of behavior as "corrupt". Nonetheless, earlier studies on corruption in Greek and Roman antiquity have often tried to define which periods were "more" or "less corrupt", or how corruption influenced the demise of political orders (for example in the late Roman republic or in late antiquity). This volume develops a different approach, focusing on the ways in which ancient sources – literary texts, papyri, laws, etc. – have understood and defined corruption, to gain an emic perspective of corruption in different moments and contexts of Graeco-Roman Antiquity. The volume thus provides an innovative and comprehensive perspective on corruption and anti-corruption in Greek and Roman antiquity, thus providing relevant tools also for today?s discussions about a topic which is and was always current.

Author / Editor information
Filippo Carlà-Uhink and Eike Faber, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.

 

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Eike Faber
Part 1: The Discourse(s) of and on Corruption
Twisted Transfers as Corruption

Filippo Carlà-Uhink
The Corrupted Speak

Cristina Rosillo-López
Civil War and the Corruption of liberalitas in Tacitus? Histories

Shushma Malik
Irreversible Corruption

Irene Leonardis
Part 2: Corruption in Social Practice and Daily Life
Creating Evidence for Corruption

Christopher Degelmann
Corruption in Greco-Roman Egypt

Patrick Sänger
Ideas of Corruption in Roman Imperial Ports

Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz
Suspect Inheritances

Marta García Morcillo
Salvian and the Corrupted Church of Southern Gaul

Maik Patzelt
Part 3: The Politics and Diplomacy of Corruption
Corruption and Anti-Corruption

Yehudah Gershon
Beyond Crime

Silvia Lacorte
Usurpation of (and Corruption Involving) the Right of Roman Citizenship in the Republic

Andrea Raggi
Balkan Promises

Christian Rollinger
Index

 
 
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Corruption in the Graeco-Roman World : Re-Reading the Sources

by: Carla-Uhink, F. Faber, E.

  • ISBN-13: 9783111338606 / 978-3-11-133860-6
  • ISBN-03: 3111338606 / 3-11-133860-6
  • Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2024

Price: 105,95 EURO

1 copy in stock
 

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