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Violence in Republican Rome
Andrew William Lintott
出版Oxford University Press, 1999
主題History / Ancient / GeneralHistory / Ancient / RomeHistory / Europe / GeneralLaw / Legal HistoryPolitical Science / Political Process / GeneralSocial Science / Violence in Society
ISBN01981528259780198152828
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QIKEpOP4lLIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.