Title: Organised crime in antiquity /
Authors: Hopwood, Keith.
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales ; Distributor in the United States of America, The David Brown Book Co.,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Organized crime History Congresses.; Mafia History Congresses.; Violence History Congresses.
Abstract: This is a collection of nine original studies, by historians of Greece and Rome, that explore the activities and the images of ancient criminals, comparing them closely and provocatively with the Greek and Roman governments which the criminals challenged.
Contents: The Mafia of early Greece: violence exploitation in the seventh and sixth centuries BC / Hans van Wees -- 'Workshops of villains': was there much organised crime in classical Athens? / Nick Fisher -- Condottieri and clansmen: early Italian raiding, warfare and the state / Louis Rawlings -- The revolt of the Boukoloi: geography, history and myth / Richard Alston -- Native rebellion in the Pisidian Taurus / Stephen Mitchell -- Bandits between grandees and the state: the structure of order in Roman Rough Cicilia / Keith Hopwood - 'You speculate on the misery of the poor': usury as civic injustice in Basil of Caesarea's second homily on Psalm 14 / Susan R. Holman -- The violence of circus factions / Michael Whitby -- Crime and control in Aztec society / Frances R. Berdan.