Organised Crime in Antiquity

Buch | Softcover

278 Seiten

1999
Classical Press of Wales (Verlag)
978-1-905125-29-6 (ISBN)

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What are states but large bandit bands, and what are bandit bands but small states?' So asked St Augustine, reflecting on the late Roman world. Here nine original studies, by established historians of Greece, Rome and other ancient civilisations, explore the activities and the images of ancient criminal groups, comparing them closely and provocatively with the Greek and Roman government which the criminals challenged.

Keith Hopwood is an historian with special interests in late Antiquity and the Byzantine world. Author of Ancient Greece and Rome: A bibliographical guide, he has published numerous papers on Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Asia Minor in classical and oriental journals.

The mafia of early Greece - violent exploitation in the seventh and sixth centuries BC, Hans Van Wees; workshops or villains? was there much organised crime in classical Athens?, Nick Fisher; condottieri and clansmen - early Italian raiding, warfare and the state, Louis Rawlings; the revolt of the Boukoloi - geography, history and myth, Richard Alston; native rebellion in the Pisidian Taurus, Stephen Mitchell; bandits between grandees and the states - the structure of order in Roman rough Cilicia, Keith Hopwood; "you speculate on the misery of the poor" - usuary as civic injustice in Basil of Caesarca's second homily on Psalm 14, Susan R. Holman; the violence of the circus factions, Michael Whitby; crime and control in Aztec society, Frances F. Berdan.

Reihe/Serie	Greece, Rome & Beyond
Verlagsort	Swansea
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	463 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	1-905125-29-1 / 1905125291
ISBN-13	978-1-905125-29-6 / 9781905125296
Zustand	Neuware