‘He had thoughtlessly accepted certain gifts’
- It has been highlighted many times how difficult it is to draw a boundary between gift and bribe, and how the same transfer can be interpreted in different ways according to the position of the observer and the narrative frame into which it is inserted. This also applied of course to Ancient Rome; in both the Republic and Principate lawgivers tried to define the limits of acceptable transfers and thus also to identify what we might call ‘corruption’. Yet, such definitions remained to a large extent blurred, and what was constructed was mostly a ‘code of conduct’, allowing Roman politicians to perform their own ‘honesty’ in public duty – while being aware at all times that their involvement in different kinds of transfer might be used by their opponents against them and presented as a case of ‘corrupt’ behaviour.
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| Verfasserangaben: | Filippo Carlà-UhinkORCiDGND |
|---|---|
| URL: | https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/cult.2024.0296 |
| ISSN: | 2045-290X |
| ISSN: | 2045-2918 |
| Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Cultural History |
| Untertitel (Englisch): | corrnuption and ormative behaviour for roman magistrates |
| Verlag: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Verlagsort: | Edinburgh |
| Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 28.03.2024 |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
| Datum der Freischaltung: | 12.04.2024 |
| Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Ancient Rome; Cicero; bribery; code of conduct; corruption; embezzlement; gift-giving; transfers |
| Band: | 13 |
| Ausgabe: | 1 |
| Seitenanzahl: | 19 |
| Erste Seite: | 52 |
| Letzte Seite: | 70 |
| Fördernde Institution: | DFG |
| Organisationseinheiten: | Philosophische Fakultät / Historisches Institut |
| DDC-Klassifikation: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 93 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie / 930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie |
| Lizenz (Deutsch): |  Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
