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Embarking on a unique study of Roman criminal law, Judy Gaughan has developed a novel understanding of the nature of social and political power dynamics in republican government. Revealing the significant relationship between political power and attitudes toward homicide in the Roman republic, “Murder Was Not a Crime” describes a legal system through which families (rather than the government) were given the power to mete out punishment for murder.
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This is the sixth volume in the Collected Works of David Daube. The theme, Roman law and language, is bound up with Daube's entire body of work. The selected essays and papers included in this volume were first published in the 1960s and 1970s. Some of the works in this volume include: the Gray lectures Daube delivered to the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge University in 1966; an essay that examines the shifting meaning of the Latin term suffragium;...
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The essence of Aeschylus's famous trilogy in a single play that speaks forcefully to today's audiences. In lean, lyrical poetry, Rob Hardy's adaptation highlights all the glory of the original: With a foreword, an introduction, notes, and figures. Called "masterful" by Thomas Van Nortwick, professor of classics (emeritus), Oberlin College.
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