Questioni su origini, compiti e scioglimento delle cohortes praetoriae. A proposito di un libro recente

Abstract

A recently published volume offers the opportunity to discuss again some problems concerning the origins of the Praetorian Cohorts, their relations with the Urban Cohorts, their tasks and some circumstances relating to their dissolution by Constantine. The relationship with the princeps remains fundamental. The correct framing of this relationship allows us to understand the reason for the various tasks entrusted to the Praetorians and shows their intimate connection with the constitutional changes that lead from the Republic to the Empire.