The imprint of Roman institutions, [electronic resource] edited by David W. Savage.

Bibliography: p. 227-231.

The kinship basis of authority and values: the Roman aristocratic family -- Political and legal institutions in a complex society: the expansion of Rome in the Mediterranean world -- The adaptation of Greek philosophy to Roman institutions and values: Cicero's ethics, rhetoric and politics -- The "Pax Romana"; bureaucratization, romanization, and stoic individualism in the empire -- The crisis of the third century: the empire and the church -- The Christian foundations of spiritual and political authority: Saint Augustine's synthesis of the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions.