Public Order in Ancient Rome

Public Order in Ancient Rome PDF Author: Wilfried Nippel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521387491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Book Description
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.