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Author:   Keith Hopwood ,  Richard Alston ,  Frances Berdan (California State University, San Bernardino) ,  Reader in Ancient History Nick Fisher (Cardiff University)
Publisher:   Classical Press of Wales
Imprint:   Classical Press of Wales
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.463kg
ISBN:  

9781905125296

ISBN 10:   1905125291
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   01 January 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

The mafia of early Greece - violent exploitation in the seventh and sixth centuries BC, Hans Van Wees; workshops or villains? was there much organised crime in classical Athens?, Nick Fisher; condottieri and clansmen - early Italian raiding, warfare and the state, Louis Rawlings; the revolt of the Boukoloi - geography, history and myth, Richard Alston; native rebellion in the Pisidian Taurus, Stephen Mitchell; bandits between grandees and the states - the structure of order in Roman rough Cilicia, Keith Hopwood; ""you speculate on the misery of the poor"" - usuary as civic injustice in Basil of Caesarca's second homily on Psalm 14, Susan R. Holman; the violence of the circus factions, Michael Whitby; crime and control in Aztec society, Frances F. Berdan.

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Keith Hopwood is an historian with special interests in late Antiquity and the Byzantine world. Author of Ancient Greece and Rome: A bibliographical guide, he has published numerous papers on Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Asia Minor in classical and oriental journals.

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