Munera

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Munera (lat., Sg. Munus ) generally referred to a service for the general public in Roman antiquity . When translating into German, various words come into consideration, such as task, office, gift, sacrifice, drama, favor . Similar to the Greek Leiturgy , the field of possible achievements was broad.

The following tasks can be counted among the more common munera :

  • Financing of public games and celebrations, especially for aediles
  • Gladiator game and service ( munus gladiatorum )
  • Military service ( munera militae ), in particular the normal service of the ordinary legionnaire , consisting of guard, camp construction, transport work, etc. existed
  • Charges for supplying the army
  • Civil offices ( munera civilia ), both ordinary magistrates and extraordinary functions, such as B. Curator aquarum as well as subaltern offices such. B. saccarius (loading assistant on ships)

Remarks

  1. Helga Botermann : On the similarities between munera and leiturgia see Polis and Imperium , Hameln 2006 (PDF; 68 kB).
  2. Sabine Wussow: The Personality of Cato Uticensis - Between Stoic Moral Philosophy and Republican Political Understanding , Diss. Dortmund 2004, p. 134 ff. ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.9 MB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / eldorado.uni-dortmund.de
  3. see e.g. Suetonius , De Vita Caesarum, 39.1 .
  4. Georg Oesterdiekhoff: The Roman Military Organization , Aachen 2005  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.oesterdiekhoff.eu  
  5. Carsten Drecoll, The Liturgies in the Roman Empire of the 3rd and 4th Centuries AD , p. 228 ff.

literature

  • Carsten Drecoll: The liturgies in the Roman Empire of the 3rd and 4th centuries AD , Stuttgart 1997 (Diss. Freiburg, 1996).
  • Dirk Schlinkert: Ordo Senatorius and Nobilitas: The Constitution of the Senate Nobility in Late Antiquity , Stuttgart 1996 (Diss. Göttingen 1995).
  • Gabriele Wesch-Klein : Social Aspects of the Roman Army in the Imperial Era , Stuttgart 1998.
  • Gabriele Wesch-Klein: Commeatus id est tempus, quo ire, redire quis possit. On the granting of vacation in the Roman army , in: Géza Alföldy , Brian Dobson , Werner Eck (eds.): Kaiser, Heer und Gesellschaft in der Roman Kaiserzeit , Stuttgart 2000, pp. 459–478.