The Roman Empire. Economy, Society and Culture
22 THE ROMAN EMPIRE it a bulwark for Syria. But the facts themselves show that it is a source of continual wars for us, and of g ...
A MEDITERRANEAN EMPIRE 23 fi rst century. Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius were of Spanish stock, the family of Antoninus Piu ...
24 THE ROMAN EMPIRE (procurator) C. Iulius Alpinus Classicianus is a rarity in the Julio-Claudian period. The judgment that ‘dow ...
A MEDITERRANEAN EMPIRE 25 underrate the strength of local patriotism and the willingness of leading men to satisfy their ambitio ...
26 THE ROMAN EMPIRE penetration of urban civilization.) Strabo presents a picture of Europe as a continent in which plain and mo ...
A MEDITERRANEAN EMPIRE 27 Diodorus was writing shortly before the great period of expansion under Augustus. Strabo lived through ...
28 THE ROMAN EMPIRE information on particular localities. But outside the military, confusion reigned and was tolerated. In Stra ...
A MEDITERRANEAN EMPIRE 29 the inland town of Hadrianoutherae, Aristides’ birthplace) are of particular signifi cance.^21 He was ...
30 THE ROMAN EMPIRE speech, and most boorish in conversation’ (75.2.4–5). Nursing a bad leg and his dignity in Bithynia, Dio pro ...
A MEDITERRANEAN EMPIRE 31 had some measure of literary culture, and the exercise of the intellect was not uncommon among them’. ...
32 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Addendum The early Roman empire was centred on the Mediterranean basin. Augustus pushed the frontiers beyond ...
A MEDITERRANEAN EMPIRE 33 Harvard- based, interdisciplinary project on climate change has already produced signifi cant pilot pa ...
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Introduction The Romans controlled an empire far fl ung by any historical standards. They did not, however, develop an imperial ...
36 THE ROMAN EMPIRE production and distribution of goods. There were no state factories, no state merchant fl eets, and although ...
GOVERNMENT WITHOUT BUREAUCRACY 37 him, of whom the most important were also of senatorial status ( legati Augusti ). The organiz ...
38 THE ROMAN EMPIRE empire (as in the Alps, central Sardinia or Judaea). The replacement from the reign of Claudius of prefect b ...
GOVERNMENT WITHOUT BUREAUCRACY 39 subsidized the public treasuries with his own steadily increasing private wealth, and was empo ...
40 THE ROMAN EMPIRE third centuries bureaucratic rules governed appointments and promotions to the point where the process becam ...
GOVERNMENT WITHOUT BUREAUCRACY 41 administrative tasks. First, it is necessary to explore, on the one hand, the diverse statuses ...
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