J. E. Lendon offers a bold new analysis of how Roman government worked in the first four centuries AD. 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 honour shared by rulers and ruled.
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.
Review from previous edition [It is] a delight to read and opens up for exploration subtle aspects of the exercise of power in the Roman empire that may turn out to have been no less important than the deployment of vast armies and hefty volumes of jurisprudence.
