Law and power appear to be two opposites, whose relationship, in the Roman judicial system as in modern law, seemingly affects the various organizational forms expressed by human coexistence. Every society, in the course ...

Giorgio Ravegnani reconstructs through a thorough investigation of the sources the daily life in Roman society between the fourth and fifth centuries, a time of great change: affirmation of Christianity, split into two ...

Lukas Thommen skillfully analyzes the relationship between man and nature in greek-roman antiquity and it examines with insight on the one hand human intervention (agriculture and channeling works and mining and infrastructure ...

The book of the ancient historian Christian Mann narrates the life and legal status of gladiators: the place they occupied in society, the heavy practice and grueling exercises which they were subjected, the recognized ...

[James Morwood, Adriano, Società editrice il Mulino, Bologna, 2015, pp. 150] The volume of James Morwood, divided into 12 chapters, is constructed with accuracy and with an efficient use of the narrative form of flashbacks. ...

The book by Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi emphasizes the complex and difficult work of the roman magistrates and the jurists directed to building a legal system adaptable to the changing times. In fact they will be credited ...