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Organised Crime in Antiquity

NCJ Number
182769
Editor(s)
Keith Hopwood
Date Published
1999
Length
293 pages
Annotation
These nine papers from an international conference held in September 1996 examine organized crime in ancient Greece, Rome, and other civilizations, with emphasis on the activities and images of ancient criminal groups and on the Greek and Roman governments that the criminals challenged.
Abstract
The research was conducted primarily by individuals who considered themselves to be historians first and criminologists second. Individual papers examine the Maria of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C.; organized crime in classical Athens; and early Italian raiding, warfare, and the government. Additional papers focus on the revolt of the Boukoloi in the Egyptian Delta in 171-172 A.D., native rebellion in the Pisidia Taurus region of southern Asian minor in the later Roman Empire, the structure of order in Roman Rough Cilicia. Another paper discusses usury as civic injustice in Basil of Caesarea’s second homily on Psalm 14 in the mid-fourth century A.D. Other papers focus on the violence of organized groups responsible for arranging public entertainment in the Eastern Roman Empire from the mid-fifth century A.D. for about 150 years, and crime and control in the Aztec society of central Mexico. Figure, table, chapter reference notes and reference lists