Expert: Maria - 11/25/2003

Question
Hello,

I am writing a college paper on violence and I wanted to compare violence in the Roman empire to today.  Do you know any good books that account specifics regarding the violent nature of the Roman Empire?  (Violent entertainment, punishments..etc)  I want to try to show that past cultures were more violent than today's.

Thank you very much!

Answer
Hello,

Here are some suggestions about references to punishment and violence in Roman Empire.
Hope they can be helpful to you.

Best regards.
Maria
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Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome
by Richard A. Bauman – (December 1996)

Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment
by David Levinson (Editor), Human Relations Area Files (Editor) ( March 2002)

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [ABRIDGED]
by Edward Gibbon, David Womersley (Editor) ( January 2001)

Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire
by Ray Laurence (Editor), Joanne Berry (Editor) ( March 2001)

The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society
by Norval Morris (Editor), et al (September 1997)

On Violence and Fear in the Historians of the Later Roman Empire -A Study of  Dio, Herodian, Lactantius and Ammianus Marcellinus. Asko Timonen, University of Turku, Finland

The Strategic Use of Violence in Diocletian's Religious Policy, Elizabeth De Palma Digeser, McGill University

The Way of the Gladiator  by Daniel P. Mannix (Author) (Paperback - February 2001)

The Gladiator: The Secret History of Rome's Warrior Slaves
by Alan Baker

Gladiators and Caesars: The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome
by Eckart Kohne (Editor), Cornelia Ewigleben (Editor)