Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World
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Author(s)J. E. Lendon
PublisherClarendon Press
ISBN / ASIN0199247633
ISBN-139780199247639
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
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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.