The Roman Empire. Economy, Society and Culture
122 THE ROMAN EMPIRE among them were just going to make bread – for they had run out of it. One of them straightaway threw some ...
SUPPLYING THE ROMAN EMPIRE 123 supply of wheat procured and assembled for its market, and then the other cities may also receive ...
124 THE ROMAN EMPIRE forced to adjust their supply systems, political loyalties and land use. Some held their own, others suffer ...
SUPPLYING THE ROMAN EMPIRE 125 as indeed the Oenoanda inscription suggests. Graeco-Roman euergetism was essentially the same as ...
126 THE ROMAN EMPIRE This general conclusion must be qualifi ed. The evidence is thin. Few cities are visible, and when they com ...
SUPPLYING THE ROMAN EMPIRE 127 ADDENDUM The largest cities of the empire, above all the megalopolis Rome, outgrew the capacity o ...
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The Principate of Augustus was preceded by two decades of civil war, in which armies of a size not previously seen in Roman hist ...
132 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Sources The evidence for imperial society is limited in quantity and quality. While these defi ciencies sho ...
THE SOCIAL HIERARCHY 133 the manner of Weber? Or as class distinctions following Marx?^4 In our view, this is not a helpful appr ...
134 THE ROMAN EMPIRE outsiders who benefi ted were characteristically select lower- class dependants (freedman, slaves) who had ...
THE SOCIAL HIERARCHY 135 from the production of essential foodstuffs. Slaves had made up a large part of the work- force of the ...
136 THE ROMAN EMPIRE comparative studies suggest that peasants can be surprisingly resilient, and the conditions of the Principa ...
THE SOCIAL HIERARCHY 137 increase the social distance between the privileged orders and those of servile origin (Pliny, HN 33.32 ...
138 THE ROMAN EMPIRE criminal past and those in demeaning occupations, such as auctioneers and undertakers, were excluded.^23 Th ...
THE SOCIAL HIERARCHY 139 a sizeable heterogeneous group of men of free birth can be distinguished from both the elite orders and ...
140 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Other rules of his included the separation of soldiers from civilians; the assignment of special seats to m ...
THE SOCIAL HIERARCHY 141 and outlook rather than legal regulations, distinctions are less precise than in the case of orders. Th ...
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