Les règles de la violence dans les assemblées populaires de la République romaine
Résumé
In his Pro Sestio (77), Cicero briefly presents the way violence burst and spread during
the roman republic assemblies. It sprang from conflicts between magistrates, then
spread over the mob of citizens with screams and expressions of opinion. When tension
grew up, the audience divided into hostile parts, which confronted each other and
possibly fought. A study of well known situations of violence during the assemblies,
as well in real situations as in annalists’ reconstructions, confirms this sequence of acts
constitued a true paradigm of collective behaviour, which derived logically from the
respect for institutions.
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