Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian

Steven H. Rutledge0415237009, 9780415237000, 9780203186084

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 institutionalizing and enforcing the tyranny of the infamous rulers of the early empire, such as Nero, Caligula, and Domitian. Steven Rutledge’s study examines the evidence and asks if this is a fair portrayal.

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Table of contents :
Book Cover……Page 1
Title……Page 4
Contents……Page 5
Preface and acknowledgements……Page 10
Abbreviations……Page 12
Introduction……Page 18
Political and social advancement……Page 35
Exercendas leges esse: delatores and law enforcement……Page 69
Senatorial opposition and resistance I: Tiberius to Claudius……Page 100
Senatorial opposition and resistance II: Nero to Domitian……Page 126
The domus principis: delatores and factionalism in the imperial family……Page 152
Conspiracy……Page 172
Epilogue: continuity and change……Page 190
Delatores: a prosopographical survey……Page 198
Appendices……Page 306
Glossary……Page 333
Notes……Page 336
Bibliography……Page 397
Index……Page 411