PUBLIC ORDER IN ANCIENT ROME

Nippel, Wilfried

ISBN 10: 0521387493 / ISBN 13: 9780521387491

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1995

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Some pencilling to bibliography ; Key Themes in Ancient History; 176 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PUBLIC ORDER IN ANCIENT ROME
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521387493
• ISBN 13: 9780521387491
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.71 pounds

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Synopsis

The absence of a professional police force in the city of Rome in classical times is often identified as a major cause of the collapse of the Republic. But this alleged "structural weakness" was not removed by the Emperor Augustus and his successors, and was in fact shared with other premodern states. In this critical new study of the system of law and order in ancient Rome in both the republican and imperial periods, Wilfried Nippel identifies the mechanisms of self-regulation that operated as a stabilizing force within Roman society.

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In this critical new study of the system of law and order in ancient Rome in both Republican and Imperial periods, Wilfried Nippel identifies the mechanisms of self-regulation which operated as a stabilizing force within Roman society. This case-study of ancient Rome has a comparative dimension and will interest legal historians of other pre-modern societies as well as ancient historians, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists.