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Clemency & cruelty in the Roman world / Melissa Barden Dowling. |
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| Imprint |
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2006. |
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-357) and index. |
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1. Kings, dictators, and orators : Hellenistic mercy and the use of clemency during the Roman republic -- 2. From the Crudelitas of Octavian to the Clementia of Augustus : politics and propaganda in the founding of the principate -- 3. Augustan authors and the Clementia Augusti -- 4. Augustan visual propaganda and Roman response -- 5. The Clemens tyrannus : clemency and cruelty under the Julio-Claudians -- 6. The clemency of the times : Clementia in private and public life during the high empire |
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Punishment -- Rome.
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Capital punishment -- Rome.
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Torture -- Rome.
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Clemency -- Rome.
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Cruelty.
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Justice, Administration of -- Rome.
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| Collection |
Transmissions and Transformations of the Ancient World
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Clemency and cruelty in the Roman world |
| ISBN |
0472115154 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780472115150 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Description |
366 p., [22] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
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