International Law in Archaic Rome: War and Religion.

Abstract

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.'

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