Security in Roman Times

Rome, Italy and the Emperors

Bibliographic Data

ID9402555
AuthorsCecilia Ricci (corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages300
Publication date2018-01-02
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSecurity in Roman Times (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315608105
OpenAlexW4251882757
ISBN9781315608105
Open LibraryOL29368723M
LanguageEN
Citations received3

Using literary, epigraphic, numismatic and iconographic sources this book investigates the safety devices that were in place for the protection of the emperor and the city of Rome in the imperial age. In the aftermath of the civil wars Augustus continued to provide for his physical safety in the same way as in the old Republic while, at the same time, overturning the taboo of armed men in the city. During the Augustan age, the division of the city into 14 regions and 265 vici was designed to establish control over the urban space. Augustus’ successors consolidated his policy but the specific roles of the various military or paramilitary forces remain a matter for debate. Drawing on the testimony of ancient authors such as Tacitus and Suetonius and on material evidence, the volume examines both the circumstances in which these forces intervened and the strategies that they adopted. It also examines the pre-Augustan, Augustan and post-Augustan sense of ‘securitas’, both as a philosophical and a political concept. The final section expands the focus from the city of Rome to the Italian peninsula where the security of the emperor as he travelled to his country residences required advance planning and implementation

Art · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · Classical Antiquity Studies · Global Financial Regulation and Crises · History · 30 B.C.-476 A.D · empire · Military · Military art and science · Military history · Military Science · National security · Other · Praetorian Guard · Rome · Rome (italy) · Special forces (military science) · Technology & Engineering

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