The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture
Language: English
Pages: 328
ISBN: 0520285980
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
These are some of the many questions posed here, in the new, expanded edition of Garnsey and Saller's pathbreaking account of the economy, society, and culture of the Roman Empire. This second edition includes a new introduction that explores the consequences for government and the governing classes of the replacement of the Republic by the rule of emperors. Addenda to the original chapters offer up-to-date discussions of issues and point to new evidence and approaches that have enlivened the study of Roman history in recent decades. A completely new chapter assesses how far Rome’s subjects resisted her hegemony. The bibliography has also been thoroughly updated, and a new color plate section has been added.
Contemporary Moral Problems: War, Terrorism, Torture and Assassination
Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation
It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower
The Only Super Power: Reflections on Strength, Weakness, and Anti-Americanism
The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?
Of the plebs, in the cause of order and the security of his regime. Augustus’ interest in the tribunate, the prerogatives of which he gradually assumed between 36 and 23 BC, is to be explained in these terms. The appeal of the tribune lay in its historic role as the champion of the common people. More important, Augustus saw to the material needs of the masses by tending to their supply of food, water and housing, by providing public shows and by occasional distributions of considerable sums of.
View of its religious and political status. For much of our period, however, the commitment of emperors to a changeless state religion which projected an image of stability was unqualified. The ruler cult was the only Roman cult to become more or less universal. It served three main functions: the diffusion of imperial ideology, the focusing of the loyalty of subjects on the emperor and the social and political advancement of those provincials who presided over its operation. In addition, the.
Aix-en-Provence Levick, B. (1967) Roman Colonies in Southern Asia Minor. Oxford Levick, B. (1982) ‘Domitian and the provinces’, Latomus 41: 50–73 Levick, B. (1983) ‘The Senatus Consultum from Larinum’, JRS 73: 97–115 Lewis, N. (1970) ‘On paternal authority in Roman Egypt’, RIDA 17: 251–8 Lewis, N., Reinhold, M. (1955) Roman Civilization. New York Liebenam, W. (1900) Städteverwaltung in römischen Kaiserreiche. Leipzig Liebeschuetz, J.H.W.G. (1979) Continuity and Change in Roman Religion.
PCPhS 27: 58–80 Wallace-Hadrill, A. (1983) Suetonius: The Scholar and his Caesars. London Waltzing, J.P. (1895–1900) Etude historique sur les corporations professionelles chez les Romains. Louvain Wardman, A. (1982) Religion and statecraft among the Romans. London Ward-Perkins, J.B., Claridge, A. (1976) Pompeii AD 79, Exhibition Catalogue. London Watson, A. (1967) The Law of Persons in the Later Roman Republic. Oxford Watson, A. (1975) Rome of the XII Tables. Princeton Watson, G.R. (1969).
(of Prusa), 24, 50, 55 Diocletian, 7, 15–6, 22, 29, 75, 117, 119, 198, 314 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 25 disease, 17, 33, 90, 121, 161, 187; see also malaria divination, 62, 187, 192, 203 divorce, 155, 157, 159, 162, 233 Domitian, 6, 10, 13–16, 57, 66, 85–6, 191, 195, 208–9, 213, 313 Domitianus, C., usurper, 7 dowry, 97, 154, 158–9, 169, 233 Druids, 61–2, 64, 192 Drusus, the elder, 5, 189 Drusus, the younger, 5, 218 dynasty, 4, 9, 22; Flavian, 6, 15, 195; Julio-Claudian, 5, 15;.