Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian
by
Steven H. Rutledge
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Delatores (political informants) and accusatores (malicious prosecutors) were a major part of life in imperial Rome. Contemporary sources depict them as cruel and heartless mercenaries, who bore the main responsibility for institutionalising and enforcing the 'tyranny' of the infamous rulers of the...