Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World (Hansard Society Series in Politics)
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Book Details
Author(s)
J. E. Lendon
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0198150792
ISBN-13
9780198150794
Marketplace
France 🇫🇷
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Description
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.
