Back موس مايوروم Arabic Mos maiorum AZ Mos maiorum Bulgarian Mos maiorum Catalan Mos maiorum German Mos maiorum Spanish منش نیاکان FA Mos majorum French מנהגי אבות ברומא העתיקה HE Mos maiorum IA
The mos maiorum (Classical Latin: [ˈmoːs majˈjoːrʊ̃]; "ancestral custom"[1] or "way of the ancestors"; pl.: mores, cf. English "mores"; maiorum is the genitive plural of "greater" or "elder") is the unwritten code from which the ancient Romans derived their social norms. It is the core concept of Roman traditionalism,[2] distinguished from but in dynamic complement to written law. The mos maiorum was collectively the time-honoured principles, behavioural models, and social practices that affected private, political, and military life in ancient Rome.[3]
- ^ Karl-J. Hölkeskamp, Reconstructing the Roman Republic: An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research (Princeton University Press, 2010), p. 17 online.
- ^ Mos Maiorum, Brill Online.
- ^ Hölkeskamp, Reconstructing the Roman Republic, pp. 17–18.