Organised crime in antiquity
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Organised crime in antiquity
Duckworth with the Classical Press of Wales, 1999
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"Papers derived from an international conference on organised crime in the ancient world, held at Lampeter in September 1996"--P. vii
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"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 historians of Greece and Rome, explore the activities and the images of ancient criminals, comparing them closely and provocatively with the Greek and Roman governments which the criminals challenged.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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