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The absence of a professional police force in the city of Rome
in classical times is often identified as a major cause of the
collapse of the Republic. But this alleged 'structural weakness'
was not removed by the Emperor Augustus and his successors,
and was in fact shared with other pre-modern states: a special-
ized police force is a modern invention. In this critical new
study of the system of law and order in ancient Rome in both
Republican and Imperial periods, Wilfried Nippel identifies
the mechanisms of self-regulation which operated as a stabiliz-
ing force within Roman society. This case-study of ancient
Rome has a comparative dimension and will interest legal
historians of other pre-modern societies as well as ancient
historians, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists.
KEY THEMES IN ANCIENT HISTORY
Public order in ancient Rome
KEY THEMES IN ANCIENT HISTORY
EDITORS
Dr P. A. Cartledge
Clare College, Cambridge
Dr P. D. A. Garnsey
Jesus College, Cambridge
Key Themes in Ancient History aims to provide readable,
informed and original studies of various basic topics, designed in
the first instance for students and teachers of Classics and Ancient
History, but also for those engaged in related disciplines. Each
volume is devoted to a general theme in Greek, Roman, or where
appropriate, Graeco-Roman history, or to some salient aspect or
aspects of it. Besides indicating the state of current research in the
relevant area, authors seek to show how the theme is significant for
our own as well as ancient culture and society. By providing books
for courses that are oriented around themes it is hoped to encour-
age and stimulate promising new developments in teaching and
research in ancient history.
Other books in the series
Death-ritual and social structure in classical antiquity,
by Ian Morris
Literacy and orality in ancient Greece,
by Rosalind Thomas
Slavery and society at Rome,
by Keith Bradley
Public order in ancient Rome,
by Wilfried Nippel
PUBLIC ORDER IN
ANCIENT ROME
WILFRIED NIPPEL
Professor of Ancient History, Humboldt-Universitdt,
Berlin
CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS

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