Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World

ISBN-13: 9780198150794 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 336 str.

J. E. Lendon

Opis

Jon Lendon offers a bold new analysis of how Roman government worked in the first four centuries AD. He contends that a despotism rooted in force and fear enjoyed widespread support among the ruling classes of the provinces on the basis of an aristocratic culture of honor shared by rulers and ruled.

Recenzje

There is no doubt that Lendon describes a central feature of the way in which the inhabitants of the Roman Empire thought.