International Law in Archaic Rome: War and Religion
Alan Watson
120 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0801845068
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Language: English
Publish: February 1, 1993
Alan Watson focuses on the Roman priests known as the fetiales, whose sole duties were declaring war, demanding reparations before war began, and making treaties. He concludes that their rituals were real attempts to settle disputes among the ethnically and linguistically related Latin peoples. Ancient Society and History.