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The Arsacids of Rome misunderstanding in Roman-Parthian relations
Nabel, Jake
Ebook
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. At the beginning of the common era, the...
POMPEY THE GREAT the roman alexander
FRATANTUONO, LEE.
Ebook
Pompey's career in command began at a young age, taking control of his deceased father's legions in support of Sulla during the civil war with Marius. A precocious and ambitious talent, he held repeated commands before he was the legal age. Sulla called him 'the teenage butcher'. He served in the...
Taxes and Authority in the Late Antique Countryside The Reach of the State and the Pagarchs of Byzantine Egypt (284-642 CE)
Stern, Matthias
Ebook
How did the late Roman Empire operate in rural areas, where most of its subjects lived? The papyri from Egypt provide glimpses of state activity at the local level, how the countryside responded to it, and thus how "empire" looked on the ground. Since a major motivator for state activity at the...

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