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Auteur(s) : Gaughan, Judy E.
Titre(s) : Murder was not a crime [Texte imprimé] : homicide and power in the Roman republic / Judy E. Gaughan
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010
Description matérielle : xviii, 194 p. ; 24 cm
Collection : Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture
Lien à la collection : Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture
Comprend : Killing and the king ; Power of life and death : pater and res publica ; Killing
and the law, 509-450 B.C.E ; Murder was not a crime, 449-81 B.C.E ; Capital jurisdiction,
449-81 B.C.E ; License to kill ; Centralization of power and sullan ambiguity.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Embarking on a unique study of Roman criminal law, Judy Gaughan has developed a novel
understanding of the nature of social and political power dynamics in republican government.
Revealing the significant relationship between political power and attitudes toward
homicide in the Roman republic, Murder Was Not a Crime describes a legal system through
which families (rather than the government) were given the power to mete out punishment
for murder." "With implications that could modify the most fundamental beliefs about
the Roman republic, Gaughan's research maintains that Roman criminal law did not contain
a specific enactment against murder, although it had done so prior to the overthrow
of the monarchy. While kings felt an imperative to hold monopoly over the power to
kill, Gaughan argues, the republic phase ushered in a form of decentralized government
that did not see itself as vulnerable to challenge by an act of murder. And the power
possessed by individual families ensured that the government would not attain the
responsibility for punishing homicidal violence." "Drawing on surviving Roman laws
and literary sources, Murder Was Not a Crime also explores the dictator Sulla's "murder
law," arguing that it lacked any government concept of murder and was instead simply
a collection of earlier statutes repressing poisoning, arson, and the carrying of
weapons. Reinterpreting a spectrum of scenarios, Gaughan makes new distinctions between
the paternal head of household and his power over life and death, versus the power
of consuls and praetors to command and kill."--BOOK JACKET
Sujet(s) : Assassinat -- Rome
Homicide (droit romain)
Politique et gouvernement -- Rome -- 509-30 av. J.-C.
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780292721111 (cl.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0292721110 (cl.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9780292795136 (e-book). - ISBN 0292795130 (e-book). - ISBN 0292725671 (pbk.). - ISBN
9780292725676 (pbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43612616n
Notice n° :
FRBNF43612616
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