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019 $a1022279605
020 $a9781472460158$q(hbk)
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050 00 $aU35$b.R523 2018
082 04 $a355.00937/63$223
100 1 $aRicci, Cecilia,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSecurity in Roman times :$bRome, Italy and the emperors /$cCecilia Ricci.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge Taylor & Francis Group,$c2018.
264 4 $c©2018
300 $axiii, 300 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 259-291) and index.
520 8 $a"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."--Back cover.
651 0 $aRome$xHistory, Military$y30 B.C.-476 A.D.
651 0 $aRome (Italy)$xHistory$yTo 476.
651 7 $aItaly$zRome.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204500
651 7 $aRome (Empire)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204885
648 7 $aTo 476$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 $aMilitary history.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411630
852 00 $bglx$hU35$i.R523 2018