Название: Murder Was Not a Crime: Homicide and Power in the Roman Republic
Автор: Judy E. Gaughan
Издательство: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292725671
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 214
Размер: 11,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Embarking on a unique study of Roman criminal law, Judy Gaughan has developed a novel understanding of the nature of social and political power dynamics in republican government. Revealing the significant relationship between political power and attitudes toward homicide in the Roman republic, Murder Was Not a Crime describes a legal system through which families (rather than the government) were given the power to mete out punishment for murder.

Название: The Etruscans: A Captivating Guide to the Etruscan Civilization of Ancient Italy That Preceded the Roman Republic
Автор: Captivating History
Издательство: Captivating History
ISBN: 1647480922
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 118
Размер: 3,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The importance of the Etruscans can be traced back to Rome. The Roman Republic, and later the Roman Empire, was an unusual conqueror because it would absorb and assimilate elements of the cultures it dominated. A standing practice was to allow the defeated to continue practicing their culture and religion so long as they paid their taxes on time. Such a procedure was part of why Christianity would seep into the Roman Empire around the 1st century CE, for example.

Название: Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
Автор: Edward J. Watts
Издательство: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465093817
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 29,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author.
In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy.