The Oxford History Of The Classical World

reveals how sudden, complete, and economically important such a step could be. The inhabitants of these estates, through the hie ...

a necessary cog in the administrative machine, but most of the others in the jungle that was the Palace service seem to have bee ...

The Basilica Julia In Rome, begun by Caesar in 54 BC and completed by Augustus. One of the great judicial buildings of the capit ...

Empire cannot overlook the advantages of the existence of a legal framework to imperial rule, which the Hellenistic kingdoms had ...

Aerial View Of The Port At Carthage, one of the major harbours of the Roman Mediterranean. The two artificial basins visible in ...

The transmission, retrieval, and storage of information is a still more basic ingredient of the stability, durability, and effec ...

Document Prom The Archive At Dura-Europus (first half of third century A.D.). The numerous papyri from the archive include legal ...

likewise was always mobile: there were clerks, but no offices. No ancient office building and no ancient desk will ever be disco ...

Documents And Writing Equipment. From left to right an eraser, a four-leaved tablet, a double inkwell with a pen leaning against ...

of the Empire, powerfully expressing the relationship of Rome to its loyal subjects. A collection of privileges, honours, even h ...

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Citizenship Diploma Of Gemellus. Dated 17 July 122, the two bronze tablets, wired together through holes at the adjacent corners ...

concept of numeracy. Book-keeping, hindered by the number systems of Greek and Latin, always remained primitive. It is very stra ...

Philip The Arab (AD 244-9), one of a new breed of soldier Emperors who came to the fore in the third century. Their portraits ex ...

Augustan Poetry And Society (By R.O.A.M. Lyne) This is perhaps the most eventful period of Roman history, witness to civil war ...

group of poets comprising Catullus, Calvus, Cinna, and others. These are men of the provincial or Roman upper classes who take t ...

technically panegyrics, devote themselves to the celebration of Messalla and his family (1.7 and 2.5), and scatters his other po ...

Agricultural Scenes, mosaic at Cherchel (Algeria). Early third century A.D. The upper scenes show ploughing and sowing; the lowe ...

not in the patronage of Maecenas. While writing the Georgics he is; and the Georgics, instigated or at least encouraged by Maece ...

Remains Of Horace's Villa At Licenza in the hills 40km east of Rome. The identification of the site as the Sabine farm bestowed ...