The Roman Empire. Economy, Society and Culture
42 THE ROMAN EMPIRE The constitutions of the rest of the cities of the empire were as diverse as the cities themselves. The citi ...
GOVERNMENT WITHOUT BUREAUCRACY 43 Constantine an upgrading from village to city ( ILS 6099). This was a lapsed city; as evidence ...
44 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Superior and Dalmatia had a history of this kind.^25 Such communities may never have acquired the outward fo ...
GOVERNMENT WITHOUT BUREAUCRACY 45 Self- governing cities were also slow in coming in the heartland of Africa Proconsularis, the ...
46 THE ROMAN EMPIRE part of the background. The communities were not and could not afford to be passive. Their fortunes depended ...
GOVERNMENT WITHOUT BUREAUCRACY 47 the social inequality within the governing class that this implies is sometimes referred to in ...
48 THE ROMAN EMPIRE discretionary powers, and to provide safeguards against their use in the case of certain privileged categori ...
GOVERNMENT WITHOUT BUREAUCRACY 49 proconsuls as well as legates of the emperor. This practice was apparently initiated by August ...
50 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Amisus, that would normally have escaped such intervention. There is nothing to suggest that these occasions ...
GOVERNMENT WITHOUT BUREAUCRACY 51 bequests for games, hunts and other spectacles,^41 show that the voluntary benefactions as wel ...
52 THE ROMAN EMPIRE in a reply to his legate, loss of privilege was not in question (Pliny, Ep. 10.48, 93). If Aphrodisias is an ...
GOVERNMENT WITHOUT BUREAUCRACY 53 If there was a ‘real’ imperial civil service under the Principate, it was made up slaves and f ...
54 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Napoleon, and larger than was required in an empire that was largely at peace (Eich 2009, Bang 2013, 417–27) ...
The impression that the pax Romana reigned supreme over the empire for the fi rst two centuries AD without any great effort by t ...
56 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Similarly, the claim in a passage of panegyric by Velleius ( Hist. 2.126) that the countryside was free from ...
ENEMIES OF ROME 57 regarded as basically conquered and no longer a threat, even in those areas where rebellion broke out soon af ...
58 THE ROMAN EMPIRE particularly during the civil war of AD 69 when rebellions were in progress in north- east Anatolia (Tac. Hi ...
ENEMIES OF ROME 59 Commodus or Caracalla are accused of tyranny and immorality in their refusal to give Greeks their due rights ...
60 THE ROMAN EMPIRE peace within the Roman state and that the society that had been destroyed in Judaea could safely be rebuilt. ...
ENEMIES OF ROME 61 Why should such Romanized provincials be particularly hostile to Rome? Romans naturally saw it as treachery – ...
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