The Roman Empire. Economy, Society and Culture

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Notes on the illustrations ix Preface xii Abbreviations xiv Map xvi Introduction to the fi rst edition xvii PART ONE 1 Introduci ...

viii CONTENTS 8 The social hierarchy PART THREE Addendum 9 Family and household Addendum 10 Social relations Addendum 11 Religi ...

Two adjacent details from the mosaic depicting the Circus Maximus in the fourth-century AD fl oor of the Roman villa at Piazza ...

x NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS f. The iconographic form of the group reused as an image of Hebrews escaping from Egypt during the ...

NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS xi regime to a diverse populace. Figure 4f is a portrait bust of Marcus Aurelius, which found its way ...

Our purpose, when we set out to write this book in the mid-1980s, was to produce a synthetic account of the early Roman empire, ...

PREFACE xiii As well as bringing the original text up to date, this second edition contains two new chapters. It was put to us t ...

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ABBREVIATIONS xv Eur.Rev.Ec.Hist. European Revue of Economic History G&R Greece and Rome IG Inscriptiones Graecae IGBulg. In ...

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The Roman empire at its zenith in the period of the Principate (roughly, 27 BC to AD 235) covered vast tracts of three continent ...

xviii INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION This book could not have been composed without exposure to the recent work of a large nu ...

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