Leading historian of Rome with an account of the erosion of law and order in the final years of the Roman Republic, told though the story of the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, Cicero.
They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered ... The festival was held to honour the god Saturn. Cicero, a Roman who wrote about life in Rome, said of the work people could ...
This book combines sociolinguistic and historical approaches to explore how that power is deployed by the bilingual elite of the Roman Republic and Empire, offering the first systematic analysis of ...