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Clemency and Cruelty in the Roman World
Melissa Dowling
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| #7116441 in Books | 2006-01-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.70 x6.00l,1.64 | File type: PDF | 400 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating peek into Roman society|By Jeri|Dowling's book investigates how the Romans viewed clemency and cruelty. Clemency was seen as the necessary attribute of those in charge--the father, the emperor, or society as a whole. To the Romans, "The opposite of clemency is not severity but savagery. Severitas, strictness with those who offend....is as much a virtue as a v|About the Author|Melissa Barden Dowling is Associate Professor in the Clements Department of History and Director of Classical Studies at Southern Methodist University.
When the Roman democratic republic fell and the monarchical empire rose, a new vocabulary of power was needed to help balance the awesome abilities of the state to inflict harm and the need of its people for individual protection. In Clemency and Cruelty in the Roman World, Melissa Barden Dowling explores the formation of clemency as a human and social value in the Roman Empire, a topic that has been curiously neglected despite its obvious importance to our understa...
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