Dictator: The Evolution of the Roman Dictatorship

by Mark Wilson

Roman consuls were routinely trained by background and experience to handle the usual problems of a twelve-month turn in office. But what if a crisis arose that wasn't best met by whoever happened to be in office that year? The Romans had a mechanism for that: the dictatorship, an alternative emergency executive post that granted total, unanswerable power to that man who was best suited to resolve the crisis and then stand down, restoring normality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472132660
• ISBN13: 9780472132669
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.1" x 6.1"