Organised Crime in Antiquity

Download or read book Organised Crime in Antiquity written by Richard Alston and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are states but large bandit bands, and what are bandit bands but small states? So asked St Augustine, reflecting on the late Roman world. Here nine original studies, by historians of Greece and Rome, explore the activities and the images of ancient criminals, comparing them closely and provocatively with the Greek and Roman governments which the criminals challenged.