Prassi belliche antiche, studi postcoloniali e moderna nozione di “crimini internazionali”: una comparazione possibile?

Abstract

The paper deals with the postcolonial studies from a historical-legal perspective. In a dialogue between disciplines often deaf to each other, can Roman law improve a better understanding of Roman expansionism and challenge the current interpretations of Roman conquest in terms of “identicide”, “democide”, “urbicide” analogous in form, if not in size, to the genocidal behaviours of the 20th and 21th centuries? Can Roman law be seen as a unifying factor, but at the same time, due to self-government granted to the civitates, as a counter-argument to the “imperialistic” interpretation of the Roman Empire?