Fondements et crises du pouvoir

This book is the result of long scientific quest. Over thirty researchers, from different origins and backgrounds, have scrutinised and analysed testimonies by ancient people in order to define the nature, and explore the creations, of power in classical ancient times.

Through two notions that appeared both essential and inseparable, that of foundations and that of crisis, historians and philologists endeavoured to present a consistent overall view of one of the major aspects of the workings of ancient societies.