Security at the Games in the Early Imperial Period
Abstracts: The question of how the games were policed in early imperial Rome has not received due attention. Most commentators assume that the responsibility fell to the urban cohorts created by Augustus, but this opinion is largely based on evidence from the second century. A closer examination of the sources for the Julio-Claudian period suggests instead that it was the praetorian guard that provided security at these venues.
Plebs and princeps
This work deals with the mutual relationship between the principes, from Augustus to Nero, and the city plebs. In a pioneering work which seeks to move far beyond simple class and ethnic description, Professor Yavetz asks the tough question: why did key Roman emperors make so many efforts to endear themselves to the urban populace? The situation was not entirely unlike what one observes in present day advanced societies. Although a ruling elite held a monopoly of force and power in military and even legislative terms, Ceasar and Ceasarism well understood the advantages of largesse - from rent relief to public games - consolidating and legitimating power. In a work which is self-defined as a limited slice of history, the author is yet able to illumine vast chunks of political sociology: attitudes of the urban mass to one party rule, the trade-off between material goods and politial loyalty, the maintenance of elementary forms of legality, and a populist bent among those who would rule. Yavetz's classic work, which first appeared in 1969 and has been long unavailable, faithfully employs classical events to illumine modern life - not in a forced, but better, in quite natural ways.
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN YORKSHIRE
( Presidential Address delivered at Sheffield , 14 th December, 1957).

I. General History For some years after its institution in 1835 the Geological Survey was preoccupied with the south-western parts of Britain, and it was almost mid-century before the work of “making the geological map” was extended northwards to the borders of Yorkshire. Already several one-inch maps had been completed and were issued, hand-coloured, on what later became known as the “Old-Series” grid, and in 1846 De la Beche published his first volume of Memoirs of the Geological Survey. We find the name of Warington W. Smyth on a detailed section, dated 1845, of the first Woodhead Tunnel which lies partly in Yorkshire. And at about the same time William Smith’s nephew, John Phillips, was spending some eight years of his life on the staff of the Geological Survey, bringing to publication in 1852 the first official map to cover a part of Yorkshire—the original edition of the Old-Series sheet 81 NE., mainly covering the High Peak of Derbyshire but including, on its east side, small parts of the Yorkshire Coalfield near Sheffield.

Once started, the survey of Yorkshire continued at such a pace that its completion was announced in 1882. A small band of field geologists of outstanding ability was responsible for this feat: W. W. Smyth, A. H. Green, C. le Neve Foster, Clifton Ward and J. R. Dakyns who, with John Phillips, brought the survey of the Sheffield area, Sheet 82 NW., to its publication in 1867; W …