Crime and Community in Ciceronian Rome

by Andrew M. Riggsby

Book Overview

In the late Roman Republic, acts of wrongdoing against individuals were prosecuted in private courts, while the iudicia publica (literally "public courts") tried cases that involved harm to the community as a whole. In this book, Andrew M. Riggsby thoroughly investigates the types of cases heard by the public courts to offer a provocative new understanding of what has been described as "crime" in the Roman Republic and to illuminate the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292770995
• ISBN13: 9780292770997
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"