sources of nobility, with the evidence weighted in favor of the "new man". See also New men New Man (utopian concept) Homo Ludens Homo Sovieticus Nouveau riche The Iliad, the first example of the common man in literature Heroic fantasy, sources Roman and Greek literature for virtus and the common man Notes Further reading Burckhardt, Leonhardt A. 1990. "The Political Elite of the Roman Republic: Comments on Recent Discussion of the Concepts Nobilitas and Homo Novus." Historia 39:77–99. Carney, Thomas F. 1959. "Once Again Marius’ Speech after Election in 108 B.C." Symbolae Osloensis 35.1: 63–70. Dugan, John. 2005. Making a New Man: Ciceronian Self-Fashioning in the Rhetorical Works. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. Feig Vishnia, Rachel. 2012. Roman Elections in the Age of Cicero: Society, Government, and Voting. London: Routledge. Hill, Herbert. 1969. "Nobilitas in the Imperial Period." Historia 18.2: 230–250. Späth, Thomas. 2010. "Cicero, Tullia, and Marcus: Gender-specific Issues for Family Tradition?" In Children, Memory, and Family Identity in Roman Culture. Edited by Véronique Dasen, 147-172. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. van der Blom, Henriette. 2010. Cicero’s Role models: The Political Strategy of a Newcomer. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. Vanderbroeck, Paul J. J. 1986. "Homo Novus Again." Chiron 16:239–242. Wiseman, T. Peter. 1971. New Men in the Roman Senate, 139 B.C.—A.D. 14. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. Wright, Andrew. 2002. "Velleius Paterculus and L. Munatius Plancus." Classical Philology 97.4: 178–184. Wylie, Graham J. 1993. "P. Ventidius: From Novus Homo to “Military Hero.”" Acta Classica 36:129–141. External links Dictionary of the History of Ideas: "Renaissance Idea of the Dignity of Man" Society of ancient Rome Ancient Roman titles