Organised Crime in Antiquity

Keith Hopwood (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

278 Seiten

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

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The nine papers in this edited book derive from an international conference on organised crime held at Lampeter, 1996. They illustrate the antiquity of violence and crime and the need to put evidence for criminal activities into their social context.

'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.

Zusatzinfo	Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	Swansea
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 231 mm
Gewicht	499 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