Drawing on literary and archaeological data, this volume establishes a correspondence between booty (in the form of slaves and precious metals) from foreign campaigns and public building programmes, and how this equilibrium was upset after the Empire reached its full expansion and began to contract in the third century.
Drawing on literary and archaeological data, this volume establishes a correspondence between booty (in the form of slaves and precious metals) from foreign campaigns and public building programmes, and how this equilibrium was upset after the Empire reached its full expansion and began to contract in the third century.
Mark Merrony is a Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (both in the UK). He specializes in Roman archaeology and history, and has undertaken fieldwork in Britain, France, and the Levant. Socio-economic aspects of Late Roman Mosaic Pavements in Phoenicia and Northern Palestine was published in 2013, and he has authored several peer-reviewed papers on the subject.
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Preface List of maps and illustrations Notes on the sources Abbreviations Introduction I The Purple Cloak of Deceit II The Bloody Peace III Crisis! What Crisis ? IV The Rise and Fall of the New Golden Era V The Plight of Rome Bibliography Index
Preface List of maps and illustrations Notes on the sources Abbreviations Introduction I The Purple Cloak of Deceit II The Bloody Peace III Crisis! What Crisis ? IV The Rise and Fall of the New Golden Era V The Plight of Rome Bibliography Index
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