The Oxford History Of The Classical World

This is why Rome long retained the habit of dealing with her subjects with the respect deserved by the free, and why Roman rule ...

Help For Needy Children. This relief on Trajan's Arch at Beneventum (A.D. 114) commemorates the Emperor's scheme for the upkeep ...

The Via Appia Antica, near Albano Laziale, south of Rome: the first of the great highways by which the Romans secured their mili ...

one of Rome's most successful tools. At Rome itself, the growth of the Empire had brought about indirectly an ever growing popul ...

Arches Of The Aqua Julia In Rome, one of the aqueducts on which the city's water-supply depended. Built by Agrippa in 33 B.C. to ...

administrative revolution consisted in the creation of boards of senior magistrates in departments (curae) responsible for the m ...

Camp-Building: relief on Trajan's Column in Rome (dedicated in A.D. 113). The sculptured narrative of the emperor's Dacian campa ...

strategos. Lower down the social scale the post of superintendent of engineers {praefectus fabrum) was practically non-military ...

contact between soldiers and other citizens and non-citizens was still further fostered by the direct involvement of soldiers in ...

put into effect the decisions of the Roman government? The Roman magistrates had immediate agents in their staff of strong-arm m ...

whole burden of government. Indeed some senators did feel that their dignity should be reflected in their agenda, and that they ...

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 ...