Prosopography of ancient Rome

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The prosopography of ancient Rome is an approach to

equestrians—then collecting and analyzing data. Literary sources provide evidence mainly for the ruling elite. Epigraphy and papyrology are sources that may also document ordinary people, who have been studied in groups such as imperial freedmen, lower-class families, and specific occupations such as wet nurses (nutrices).[2]

In German scholarship,

Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft took a prosopographical approach.[3] Matthias Gelzer, one of the founders of prosopographical methodology in relation to ancient Rome, focused on the social institution of patronage and its effects on the Roman political system.[4]

Leading 20th-century scholars who wrote in English on the

Other scholars, such as

Clodius Pulcher are recorded as testifying on behalf of the same party.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ A Companion to Roman Rhetoric (Blackwell, 2010), p. 493.
  2. ^ Susan Treggiari, Roman Social History (Routledge, 2002), n.p.
  3. ^ Alexander, "Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics," p. 103.
  4. ^ Michael C. Alexander, "Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Republic," in A Companion to Roman Rhetoric, p. 102.
  5. ^ Alexander, "Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Republic," pp. 102–103, 108.
  6. ^ Alexander, "Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics," pp. 102–103.

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