Lintott Andrew. Violence, Justice, and Law in Classical Antiquity: Collected Papers of Andrew Lintott

Brill, 2023. — 817 p. — (Impact of Empire 46).Violence, Justice, and Law in Classical Antiquity collects together forty-three of Andrew Lintott’s most significant papers, delineating a society in which justice and law encompass a readiness to resort to violence ranging from legally-sanctioned forms of “self-help” to politically-legitimised tyrannicide. The legitimation of violence in Roman culture and Roman political discourse informs the nature of Roman imperialism, and equally it is impossible to understand the illegitimate violence which characterised the political collapse of the Roman Republic without understanding its deep roots in the intellectually legitimised and legally sanctioned violence of Roman society.