Originally Posted by
Dayve
Well if you want to get right into it i mean... the entire structure of the Roman government was practically a criminal organization. Perhaps not always but absolutely around the time of Caesar the Roman government was in itself a very large criminal organization.
You had the guys at the top, the senate, the soldiers doing their dirty work and intimidating (even killing) their political opponents and foreign opponents, and extorting unreasonable amounts of money from basically everybody in their empire upon threat of violence or worse.
If you want to look at it that way then the Roman government, especially at the time of Caesar, WAS a criminal organization in its rawest and most literal sense.
If you want to look for smaller groups within the city of Rome then yeah, it stands to reason and logic that of course there would be smaller groups of organized criminals, most of them probably funded by one politician or another so he could use them to intimidate and/or kill his opponents.
You think men who have been in the army since they reached the age of adulthood and have known nothing but violence and death for decades and decades can just one day go home and plow a field or keep a shop? i very much doubt it.
Bookmarks