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The editor: Keith Hopwood is an historian with special interests
in late Antiquity and the Byzantine world. Author of Ancient Greece
and Rome: A bibliographical guide, he has published numerous papers
on Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Asia Minor in classical and oriental
journals.
'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 established historians
of Greece, Rome and other ancient civilisations, explore the activities
and the images of ancient criminal groups, comparing them closely
and provocatively with the Greek and Roman government which the
criminals challenged.
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