Edict of the consuls on Bacchanals: realism and caution

Livy concludes the eighteenth chapter of the thirty-ninth book of his Stories citing an important provision probably approved in the first senatus consultum on the Bacchanalia and an extract of the legislative norms approved by the senate in the session of October 7 of 186 BC. These rules were later rendered executive with an edict… Read More Edict of the consuls on Bacchanals: realism and caution