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This history documentary series covers Law & Order in Ancient Rome. The combined episode includes the following chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:57 The Law
16:06 The Courts
29:25 The Prisons
39:55 The Police
53:36 The Peace in the Provinces
In the first chapter we consider the very foundation of Law & Order by examining the Law itself. We cover this subject by tracing its chronological evolution from the Roman Monarchy to the Roman Republic and finally the Roman Empire.
In the second chapter we examine how laws were interpreted and applied by Rome’s judicial system as over the years. This includes the emergence of many aspects of Roman justice like judges, lawyers, juries, and more which will seem very familiar to us today.
In the third chapter we look at the practice of prisons which did indeed exist but served a far smaller role than our own form of mass incarceration today.
In the fourth chapter we turn our attention to Law Enforcement in Ancient Rome which included such elements as the Vigiles, the Praetorian Guard, and more.
And finally we conclude with the fifth chapter which addresses the wider law and order across the Empire.
Credits:
Research: Chris Das Neves
Script: Chris Das Neves
Art: Beverly Johnson
Editing: Invicta
Bibliography and Suggested Reading:
Law Making in the Later Roman Republic, Alan Watson, 1974.
A Legal History of Rome, George Mousourakis, 2007.
The Historical and Institutional Context of Roman Law, George Mousourakis, 2003.
Roman Law in Context, David Johnston, 1999.
Roman Law: An Introduction, Rafael Domingo, 2018.
Historical Introduction to the Study of Roman Law, HF Jolowicz and Barry Nicholas, 1972.
An Introduction to the Principles of Roman Law, P. Van Warmelo, 1976.
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law, ed. David Johnston, 2015.
“Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome” by Richard Bauman
“Law and Life of Rome” by J. A. Crook
“The Roman State: Laws, Lawmaking, and Legal Documents” by Gregory Rowe
“The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy” by Christer Bruun and Jonathan Edmondson.
“Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard” by Guy de la Bedoyere
“The Praetorian Guard: A History of Rome’s Elite Special Forces” by Sandra Bingham
“Policing the Roman Empire: Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order” by Christopher Fuhrmann
“The Vigiles of Imperial Rome” by Paul Reynolds
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just watching this. I 100% see why the Roman Empire collapsed.
Great video!!👍
One small note: Pontius Pilatus was not a governor, as Judea was not a province itself but the part of the province of Syria by the time of Augustus – he was a praefectus and directly obeyed to the governor in Antioch.
Stop right there, criminal scum!
How much further we have to go is the key phrase here. You throw in a good person because he made a stupid decision and had some dust in a bag and he comes out a real criminal . Our prisons are only good at making the state or private corporations money.
Can someone please explain to me what that dude is wearing on his forehead at 23:00?
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Oh my, this Invicta v-tuber hocking face creams is so weird. XD
Corporal punishment is more humane than long-term incarceration. The Biblical system is best: Financial crimes have financial punishments, you pay back a few times what you took or if a corrupt businessman who ruins the livelihoods of many work as a debt-slave to pay your victims what you can after your assets are liquidated; Violent crimes have violent punishments – an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, beating for beating, wound for wound; and heinous crimes are punished capitally.
Amazing work!!
You don't need crime for good law.
People can enforce good law themselves through discrimination.
An accused could ask a judge for a ruling to restore his reputation.
All contributions by government require crime, never good.
Wait radish sodomy??! lol. 31:23
Law and Order: Rome
Hey could u do a similarity video between Gondor/numenor and the Roman Empire and if u want do a how would both armies fair in a fight against each other
"Hard fought gains."
Utter historicism.
in the Roman criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In Rome, the dedicated officials who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as a hodgepodge of different groups independently maintaining order. These are copaganda. [DUN DUN]
Is some of the background music from ac Odyssey
the concentration of wealth ? Marxism detected. c ya.
We have state owned slaves in America to this very day. Anyone in prison is a slave to the state.
Imagine hearing that you will be executed via radish.
This was an amazing video! Well spoken and great drawings. I didn't realize the complexity of the Roman legal system.
It mustve been so easy to just skip town back then. No cameras, limited communication. You could start a whole new family a few towns away and everyone who knows you would never find out.
Thank you for reminding me about my Roman Law trauma
The court system was incredibly political during the republican system. Like you said to advance one’s careers young prominent men would frequent them and study. I believed they called themselves advocates and usually would represent the parties respective especially foreigners. For instance Caesar’s case for masintha. Roman’s commonly would tried to associate themselves with more prestigious people and typically the courts would be a demonstration of differing political bodies.
Great presentation and content.
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In america the penal system is AWFUL. Segregation by race, gangs, constant abuse, r4p3s, killings, stabbings. There is zero rehabilitation for most inmates. Many are released with little prospects and have often just come out more broken and criminally minded than when they went in. Treat people with dignity like other countries and you get a far better chance of rehabilitation and not a revolving door in and out of prison.
Tomorrow i’ll have a roman law exam, guess i’ll learn a bit more then
"…and how far we still have to go." amen to that
The "other man" in the Jesus story was the son of the last king of Jerusalem so technically the current "king"
This was supposed to be a documentary on rome. not the modern day. We get it. The elite are controlling us all through tyranical laws.
Scipio Africanus during his trial: "DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I HAVE SACRIFICED?!"
1:07:04 Fun fact: Speaking of Pontius Pilate, the aprocrypal Gospel of Nicodemus contains a letter that Pilate wrote to the future emperor Claudius. That letter, which is about the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, probably served as the proof that Claudius needed to know that neither his nephew Caligula nor his friend King Herod Agrippa was the Messiah, unlike what both men previously claimed to be to assert their authority.
So this is where parasitical lawyers got their grounding. To start their own language to exclude the masses/plebs from understanding what is going on!
24:55 I imagine the Romans of the late Republic would greatly enjoy our modern legal drama movies and TV shows.
22:13 So we're starting to get towards the idea of "innocent until proven guilty", as well as everyone being entitled to a fair trial.
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Is it possible to make a Roman pizza? At least a cheese pizza?
Could you post your viewer demographics? Genuinely kinda curious haha
Still amazed at how they had lawyers and prosecutor type of court to judge crimes just like today.
This explains a lot regarding the roots and contextual reference of the modern law system. Very good!!