J. E. Lendon - Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World
2002 | ISBN: 0199247633 | English | 336 pages | PDF | 6 MB
2002 | ISBN: 0199247633 | English | 336 pages | PDF | 6 MB
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.