Max Conzémius
“It is not as sweet to avenge a wrong as to prevent it”, Pliny wrote around the turn of the first century (Pliny, Ep.6.22.8).
Crime was a threat to the ancient Romans as much as it is to us today, and this dissertation focuses on the violation of the privacy and property of private individuals, discussing the methods the Romans sought to protect themselves. In the absence of thorough critical analysis regarding burglary and similar low level crime, and given the relative...