The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture
Language: English
Pages: 328
ISBN: 0520285980
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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.
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benefactors. There are signs that profiteering in essential foodstuffs became more common than in the past, and that local government was less able to control it and more ready to seek outside intervention. These were ominous developments, but local patriotism was seriously undermined not by the normal operation of Roman government under the Principate, but by the collapse of central authority combined with chronic insecurity in the localities in the mid-third century. III Augustus restored
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Rome from Gaul, the Chersonese, Cyprus and Spain. Pliny was not presenting a list, and if he had been, it is not complete. But in any case, the burden was shared unevenly among this latter group and the main suppliers.21 The unevenness of the division becomes clear if we inquire into the status of the grain coming to Rome. The group of main suppliers provided the tax-grain (plus the bulk of the grain that came in through supplementary tax, requisitioning and compulsory purchase), the single most
(1996). For slaves in agriculture, see Chapter 6 Addendum. The monograph of Mouritsen (2011a) fills a large gap in recent scholarship on freedmen. Junian Latins, that is, ex-slaves freed informally, have attracted an increasing amount of attention. It seems agreed that they were a numerically significant group among freedmen. Their identification in inscriptions, however, remains problematic, as they carry no distinctive onomastic markers. See Sirks (1981, 1983), Weaver (1990, 1997), López Barja
