Violence, Justice, and Law in Classical Antiquity : Collected Papers of Andrew Lintott

Violence, Justice, and Law in Classical Antiquity collects together forty-three of Andrew Lintott’s most significant papers, delineating a society in which justice and law encompass a readiness to resort to violence ranging from legally-sanctioned forms of “self-help” to politically-legitimised tyrannicide. ‎Contents 6 ‎Acknowledgements 10 ‎Abbreviations 11 ‎Notes on Contributors 13 ‎Introduction 16 ‎Part 1. Violence and Politics 20 ‎Lintott on Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence (Rosenblitt) 22 ‎Chapter 1. Cruelty in The Political Life of the Ancient World 29 ‎Chapter 2. Sula—Reprisal by Seizure in Greek Inter-community Relations 46 ‎Chapter 3. The Tradition of Violence in the Annals of the Early Roman Republic 64 ‎Chapter 4. The Violence of the Conflict of the Orders 85 ‎Chapter 5. How High a Priority Did Public Order and Public Security Have under the Republic? 92 ‎Chapter 6. The Tribunate of P. Sulpicius Rufus 104 ‎Chapter 7. The Offices of C. Flavius Fimbria in 86–85BC 120 ‎Chapter 8. Popular Justice in a Letter of Cicero to Quintus 126 ‎Chapter 9. P. Clodius Pulcher—Felix Catilina? 131 ‎Chapter 10. Cicero and Milo 145 ‎Chapter 11. The Assassination 177 ‎Part 2. Roman State and Roman Empire 190 ‎‘As The Romans Saw It ...’ (Bispham) 192 ‎Chapter 12. Trinundinum 196 ‎Chapter 13. Dio’s ‘Eighth Half-Stade’ 204 ‎Chapter 14. The Magistracy in Mommsen’s Staatsrecht 206 ‎Chapter 15. Democracy in the Middle Republic 215 ‎Chapter 16. Electoral Bribery in the Roman Republic 232 ‎Chapter 17. The Capitoline Dedications to Jupiter and the Roman People 258 ‎Chapter 18. Notes on the Roman Law Inscribed at Delphi and Cnidos 265 ‎Chapter 19. Mithridatica 273 ‎Chapter 20. What Was the ‘Imperium Romanum’? 277 ‎Chapter 21. Law and Jurisdiction in the Roman Empire 292 ‎Part 3. Law and Society 300 ‎Provocatio, Statutes, and Legal Procedure: Andrew Lintott and Roman Law (Kantor) 302 ‎Chapter 22. Provocatio: From the Struggle of the Orders to the Principate 307 ‎Chapter 23. Provocatio and Iudicium Populi Since Kunkel 355 ‎Chapter 24. Provocatio in the Second Century BC 366 ‎Chapter 25. The Leges De Repetundis and Associate Measures under the Republic 374 ‎Chapter 26. The Roman Judiciary Law from Tarentum 422 ‎Chapter 27. Procedure before Recuperatores down to the Reign of Augustus in the Light of the Epigraphic Evidence 434 ‎Chapter 28. The Fragments from Urbino in Their Historical Context 448 ‎Chapter 29. The Procedure under the Leges Calpurnia and Iunia De Repetundis and the Actio Per Sponsionem 459 ‎Chapter 30. The Quaestiones De Sicariis Et Veneficis and the Latin Lex Bantina 467 ‎Chapter 31. Cicero on Praetors Who Failed to Abide by Their Edicts 484 ‎Chapter 32. M. Caelius Rufus and Pausanias 488 ‎Chapter 33. Debt-Servitude at Rome 491 ‎Chapter 34. Freedmen and Slaves in the Light of Legal Documents from First-Century AD Campania 498 ‎Chapter 35. Delator and Index: Informers and Accusers at Rome from the Republic to the Early Principate 513 ‎Part 4. Historiography 540 ‎Thinking Historically from Thucydides to Lucan (Smith) 542 ‎Chapter 36. Civil Strife and Human Nature in Thucydides 545 ‎Chapter 37. Imperial Expansion and Moral Decline in The Roman Republic 554 ‎Chapter 38. A Historian in Cicero: Ad Familiares—P. Licinius(?) Apollonius 569 ‎Chapter 39. The Influence of Greek Historiography on Cicero 571 ‎Chapter 40. Cassius Dio and the History of the Late Roman Republic 580 ‎Chapter 41. Lucan and the History of the Civil War 609 ‎Chapter 42. The Contribution of Epigraphy to Humanist Antiquarianism 635 ‎Chapter 43. Acta Antiquissima: A Week in the History of the Roman Republic 651 ‎Glossary 676 ‎Bibliography of Major Work by Andrew Lintott 680 ‎Works Cited 685 ‎Index of Post-antique Personal Names 719 ‎Index of Deities 723 ‎Index of Ancient Personal Names 725 ‎Index of Places and Peoples 738 ‎Index of Greek and Latin Terms 744 ‎Index of Ancient Sources 757 ‎Index of Subjects 784 "Violence, Justice, and Law in Classical Antiquity collects together forty-three of Andrew Lintott's most significant papers. Lintott's corpus of work exposes the fundamental reliance of ancient Romans (and Greeks) on violent measures, including their readiness to resort to violence in the manner of judicial "self-help" or political tyrannicide. The legitimation of violence in Roman culture and Roman political discourse informs the nature of Roman imperialism, and equally it is impossible to understand the illegitimate violence which characterised the political collapse of the Roman Republic without understanding its deep roots in the intellectually legitimised and legally sanctioned violence of Roman society"-- Provided by publisher