Violence In Republican Rome

Author : Andrew William Lintott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Criminal law (Roman law).
ISBN : 0198152825

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Violence in Republican Rome by Andrew William Lintott Pdf

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 : Werner Riess,Garrett G. Fagan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472119820

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The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World by Werner Riess,Garrett G. Fagan Pdf

Examines how location confers cultural meaning on acts of violence, and renders them socially acceptable--or not

Author : Wilfried Nippel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521387493

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Public Order in Ancient Rome by Wilfried Nippel Pdf

Often identified as a major cause of the Republic's collapse, the absence of a professional police force in classical Rome was in fact a characteristic shared with other premodern states. The mechanisms of self-regulation that operated as a stabilizing force are examined in this study.

Author : Charles Goldberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000299007

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Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire by Charles Goldberg Pdf

This volume explores the role that republican political participation played in forging elite Roman masculinity. It situates familiarly "manly" traits like militarism, aggressive sexuality, and the pursuit of power within a political system based on power sharing and cooperation. In deliberations in the Senate, at social gatherings, and on military campaign, displays of consensus with other men greased the wheels of social discourse and built elite comradery. Through literary sources and inscriptions that offer censorious or affirmative appraisal of male behavior from the Middle and Late Republic (ca. 300–31 BCE) to the Principate or Early Empire (ca. 100 CE), this book shows how the vir bonus, or "good man," the Roman persona of male aristocratic excellence, modulated imperatives for personal distinction and military and sexual violence with political cooperation and moral exemplarity. While the advent of one-man rule in the Empire transformed political power relations, ideals forged in the Republic adapted to the new climate and provided a coherent model of masculinity for emperor and senator alike. Scholars often paint a picture of Republic and Principate as distinct landscapes, but enduring ideals of male self-fashioning constitute an important continuity. Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire provides a fascinating insight into the intertwined nature of masculinity and political power for anyone interested in Roman political and social history, and those working on gender in the ancient world more broadly.

Author : Judy E. Gaughan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292721111

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Murder Was Not a Crime by Judy E. Gaughan Pdf

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 : Edward J. Watts
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465093823

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Mortal Republic by Edward J. Watts Pdf

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 : Lisa Mignone
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472119882

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The Republican Aventine and Rome’s Social Order by Lisa Mignone Pdf

A new consideration of life on the Republican-era Aventine Hill uncovers a diverse urban landscape

Author : Garrett G. Fagan,Linda Fibiger,Mark Hudson,Matthew Trundle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108882903

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The Cambridge World History of Violence: Volume 1, The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds by Garrett G. Fagan,Linda Fibiger,Mark Hudson,Matthew Trundle Pdf

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 : Paul Erdkamp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521896290

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome by Paul Erdkamp Pdf

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.

Author : Valentina Arena,Jonathan R. W. Prag,Andrew Stiles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444339659

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A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic by Valentina Arena,Jonathan R. W. Prag,Andrew Stiles Pdf

An insightful and original exploration of Roman Republic politics In A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic, editors Valentina Arena and Jonathan Prag deliver an incisive and original collection of forty contributions from leading academics representing various intellectual and academic traditions. The collected works represent some of the best scholarship in recent decades and adopt a variety of approaches, each of which confronts major problems in the field and contributes to ongoing research. The book represents a new, updated, and comprehensive view of the political world of Republican Rome and some of the included essays are available in English for the first time. Divided into six parts, the discussions consider the institutionalized loci, political actors, and values, rituals, and discourse that characterized Republican Rome. The Companion also offers several case studies and sections on the history of the interpretation of political life in the Roman Republic. Key features include: A thorough introduction to the Roman political world as seen through the wider lenses of Roman political culture Comprehensive explorations of the fundamental components of Roman political culture, including ideas and values, civic and religious rituals, myths, and communicative strategies Practical discussions of Roman Republic institutions, both with reference to their formal rules and prescriptions, and as patterns of social organization In depth examinations of the 'afterlife' of the Roman Republic, both in ancient authors and in early modern and modern times Perfect for students of all levels of the ancient world, A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars and students of politics, political history, and the history of ideas.

Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0472088785

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The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic by Fergus Millar Pdf

A major work on the power of the crowd

Author : Brian Walters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192575944

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The Deaths of the Republic by Brian Walters Pdf

That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. In extant literature, the notion is first given form in the works of the orator Cicero (106-43 BCE) and his contemporaries, though the scattered fragments of orators and historians from the earlier republic suggest that the idea was hardly new. In speeches, letters, philosophical tracts, poems, and histories, Cicero and his peers obsessed over the illnesses, disfigurements, and deaths that were imagined to have beset their body politic, portraying rivals as horrific diseases or accusing opponents of butchering and even murdering the state. Body-political imagery had long enjoyed popularity among Greek authors, but these earlier images appear muted in comparison and it is only in the republic that the body first becomes fully articulated as a means for imagining the political community. In the works of republican authors is found a state endowed with nervi, blood, breath, limbs, and organs; a body beaten, wounded, disfigured, and infected; one with scars, hopes, desires, and fears; that can die, be killed, or kill in turn. Such images have often been discussed in isolation, yet this is the first book to offer a sustained examination of republican imagery of the body politic, with particular emphasis on the use of bodily-political images as tools of persuasion and the impact they exerted on the politics of Rome in the first century BCE.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004434431

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Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War by Anonim Pdf

Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War is part of a renewed interest in the Roman historian Cassius Dio. This volume focuses on Dio’s approaches to foreign war and stasis as well as civil war.

Author : Liv Mariah Yarrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781107013735

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The Roman Republic to 49 BCE by Liv Mariah Yarrow Pdf

A richly-illustrated introduction to the various ways in which coins can help illuminate the history of the Roman republic.

Author : John Wesley Heaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Mobs
ISBN : UCSC:32106018260148

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Mob Violence in the Late Roman Republic, 133-49 B.C. by John Wesley Heaton Pdf