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Clemency & cruelty in the Roman world / Melissa Barden Dowling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dowling, Melissa Barden.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Punishment--Rome.
- Punishment.
- Capital punishment--Rome.
- Capital punishment.
- Torture--Rome.
- Torture.
- Clemency--Rome.
- Clemency.
- Cruelty.
- Justice, Administration of--Rome.
- Justice, Administration of.
- Physical Description:
- 366 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Clemency and cruelty in the Roman world
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- 1 Kings, Dictators, and Orators: Hellenistic Mercy and the Use of Clemency During the Roman Republic 1
- 2 From the Crudelitas of Octavian to the Clementia of Augustus: Politics and Propaganda in the Founding of the Principate 29
- 3 Augustan Authors and the Clementia Augusti 76
- 4 Augustan Visual Propaganda and Roman Response 126
- 5 The Clemens Tyrannus: Clemency and Cruelty Under the Julio-Claudians 169
- 6 The Clemency of the Times: Clementia in Private and Public Life During the High Empire 219.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-357) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0472115154
- OCLC:
- 60741959
- Publisher Number:
- 9780472115150
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