Violence In Republican Rome
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Author | : Andrew William Lintott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Criminal law (Roman law). |
ISBN | : 9780198152828 |
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Why did the aristocracy of the Roman Republic destroy the system of government which was its basis? The answers given by ancient authorities are moral corruption and personal ambition. The modern student finds only too inevitable the causal nexus of political conflict, violence, militaryinsurrection and authoritarian government. Yet before the era of intense violence Rome had an apparently stable constitution with a long history. In this revised edition of his classic book, for which he has written a new introduction, Andrew Lintott examines the roots of violence in Republican lawand society and the growth of violence in city war and the power of armies. It suggests in conclusion that this disaster was more the outcome of folly in the choice of political means than depravity in the choice of ends.
Author | : A. W. Lintott |
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Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Edward J. Watts |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465093825 |
Download Mortal Republic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets. The stage was set for destructive civil wars -- and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus. The death of Rome's Republic was not inevitable. In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died because it was allowed to, from thousands of small wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it would last forever.
Author | : Werner Riess |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2016-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472119826 |
Download The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Examines how location confers cultural meaning on acts of violence, and renders them socially acceptable--or not
Author | : Judy E. Gaughan |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292721110 |
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Embarking on a unique study of Roman criminal law, Judy Gaughan has developed a novel understanding of the nature of social and political power dynamics in republican government. Revealing the significant relationship between political power and attitudes toward homicide in the Roman republic, Murder Was Not a Crime describes a legal system through which families (rather than the government) were given the power to mete out punishment for murder. With implications that could modify the most fundamental beliefs about the Roman republic, Gaughan's research maintains that Roman criminal law did not contain a specific enactment against murder, although it had done so prior to the overthrow of the monarchy. While kings felt an imperative to hold monopoly over the power to kill, Gaughan argues, the republic phase ushered in a form of decentralized government that did not see itself as vulnerable to challenge by an act of murder. And the power possessed by individual families ensured that the government would not attain the responsibility for punishing homicidal violence. Drawing on surviving Roman laws and literary sources, Murder Was Not a Crime also explores the dictator Sulla's "murder law," arguing that it lacked any government concept of murder and was instead simply a collection of earlier statutes repressing poisoning, arson, and the carrying of weapons. Reinterpreting a spectrum of scenarios, Gaughan makes new distinctions between the paternal head of household and his power over life and death, versus the power of consuls and praetors to command and kill.
Author | : A.W. LINTOTT |
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Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Garrett G. Fagan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108882900 |
Download The Cambridge World History of Violence: Volume 1, The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, Volume 1 provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the Palaeolithic through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, Europe, India, China, Japan and Central America. Unlike many previous works, this book does not focus only on warfare but examines violence as a broader phenomenon. The historical approach complements, and in some cases critiques, previous research on the anthropology and psychology of violence in the human story. Written by a team of contributors who are experts in each of their respective fields, Volume 1 will be of particular interest to anyone fascinated by archaeology and the ancient world.
Author | : Emma Southon |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2021-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 164700232X |
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An entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common—murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was butchered in the theater, Claudius was poisoned at dinner, and Galba was beheaded in the Forum. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Emma Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people. Inside Ancient Rome's darkly fascinating history, we see how the Romans viewed life, death, and what it means to be human.
Author | : Steele Brand |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2019-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421429861 |
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A sweeping political and cultural history, Killing for the Republic closes with a compelling argument in favor of resurrecting the citizen-soldier ideal in modern America.
Author | : Paul Erdkamp |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 647 |
Release | : 2013-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521896290 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this volume explores Rome primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived and died. The thirty-one chapters by leading historians, classicists and archaeologists discuss issues ranging from the monuments and the games to the food and water supply, from policing and riots to domestic housing, from death and disease to pagan cults and the impact of Christianity. Richly illustrated, the volume introduces groundbreaking new research against the background of current debates and is designed as a readable survey accessible in particular to undergraduates and non-specialists.