Security in Roman times : Rome, Italy and the emperors /
"Using literary, epigraphic, numismatic and iconographic sources this book investigates the safety devices that were in place for the protection of the emperor and the city of Rome in the imperial age. In the aftermath of the civil wars Augustus continued to provide for his physical safety in t...
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London :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2018.
London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018 London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2018 |
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Table of Contents:
- note: pt. I From public order to security
- 1 Studies on military forces and public order in Rome and Italy from Republic to Principate: points of view
- 2. Between Pax, Disciplina and Securitas: moving the focus
- 3. security of Rome and the security of the emperor: the slow development of a discourse and its transformation into a communicative instrument
- pt. II birth of a dispositive
- Introduction: Augustan criminal legislation and military reforms
- 4. security of the Princeps in Rome: military escorts and bodyguards
- 5. security of the urban area and its inhabitants: civilian, paramilitary and military personnel
- pt. III Testing a dispositive
- Introduction: The Security of the Princeps and of urban spaces in Rome from Tiberius to the Severans
- 6. topography of security and dangerous places: with an episode
- 7. urban soldiers and the city
- pt. IV Policing and security in imperial Italy
- Introduction: Security in Italy and the role of the central government between Augustus and the Severans
- 8. Praesidia Urbis et Italiae: Grumentum and its territory
- - a case study
- 9. Praetoria and praetorians: the emperor's travels and security {Latium Vetus)
- 10. Emperors on the move: security in the Campanian cities and in the Albanum Domitiani (first century AD).