Violence, Justice, and Law in Classical Antiquity : Collected Papers of Andrew Lintott

Violence, Justice, and Law in Classical Antiquity collects together forty-three of Andrew Lintott’s most significant papers. Lintott’s corpus of work exposes the fundamental reliance of ancient Romans (and Greeks) on violent measures, including their readiness to resort to violence in the manner of judicial “self-help” or political tyrannicide. The legitimation of violence in Roman culture and Roman political discourse informs the nature of Roman imperialism, and equally it is impossible to understand the illegitimate violence which characterised the political collapse of the Roman Republic without understanding its deep roots in the intellectually legitimised and legally sanctioned violence of Roman society.

Andrew Lintott, Ph.D. (1964), London. Emeritus Professor of Roman History and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. He has published many monographs and articles on ancient history, including Violence in Republican Rome, The Constitution of the Roman Republic, and Cicero as Evidence.

Edward Bispham, D.Phil.Oxon. (1995), is a University Lecturer in Ancient History in the Faculty of Classics in Oxford. He has published extensively on Roman Italy, including From Asculum to Actium (OUP, 2007).

J. Alison Rosenblitt, D.Phil.Oxon (2009) is Director of Studies for Classics and Senior College Lecturer at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, and the author of several books and articles, including Rome after Sulla (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).