VIOLENCE IN REPUBLICAN ROME by Andrew Lintott ( 9780198152828 )

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VIOLENCE IN REPUBLICAN ROME

By:

Andrew Lintott

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0198152825

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9780198152828

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

16 September, 1999

Edition:

Revised edition

Pages:

268

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This revised edition with new introduction of Andrew Lintott's classic book discusses the causes behind the violence which erupted periodically in Rome during the Republic. It examines the political conflict, violence, military insurrection, and authoritarian government of the Roman Republic.

Synopsis:

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, military insurrection 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 law and 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.

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