Persians, Ports, and Pepper: The Red Sea Trade in Late Antiquity
There has been an increased interest in Romeʼs connections with the Far East over the course of the last 20 years. This has resulted in the publication of many articles and monographs about the Roman involvement in the Red Sea which was the key maritime region linking the Far East with the West.
The Organization of Rome’s Wine Trade
This dissertation attempts to explain how Romans achieved the remarkable feat of furnishing Rome with wine from the 1st century BCE until the late 3rd century CE.
The Crisis of the Third Century A.D. in the Roman Empire: A Modern Myth?
Until well into the seventies of the last century the third century A.D. was perceived as a period of crisis, a crisis which was already announced under the emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-180), whose reign was characterised by warfare and epidemics.
Roman Businesswomen. I: The case of the producers and distributors of garum in Pompeii
This paper is intended to be a beginning of a series of texts about the economic activity of women in Rome.
The Concentration of Wealth: Some lessons from antiquity?
In the third century, the Empire had experienced its own ‘global’ financial crisis, with increasingly vast portions of the imperial fisc being auctioned off to pay for a state system whose books evidently did not balance.
Comparing comparisons: ancient East and West
What is comparative history good for? Does it pose special challenges? In our time of accelerating globalization, are we ready to embrace a new inter-discipline, Comparative Classics?
Explaining the maritime freight charges in Diocletian’s Price Edict
Geospatial modeling enables us to relate the maritime freight charges imposed by the tetrarchic price controls of 301 CE to simulated sailing time. This exercise demonstrates that price variation is to a large extent a function of variation in sailing time and suggests that the published rates are more realistic than previously assumed.
Explaining the maritime freight charges in Diocletian’s Price Edict
Geospatial modeling enables us to relate the maritime freight charges imposed by the tetrarchic price controls of 301 CE to simulated sailing time. This exercise demonstrates that price variation is to a large extent a function of variation in sailing time and suggests that the published rates are more realistic than previously assumed.
The shape of the Roman world
‘ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World’ simulates the time and price costs of travel by land, river and sea across the mature imperial transportation network, notionally approximating conditions around 200 CE. In the version used for this paper, the model links some 750 sites (mostly cities but also some landmarks such as passes and promontories) by means of c.85,000 kilometers of Roman roads selected to represent the principal arterial connections throughout the empire.
A Brief History of Property Tax
You can have a Lord, you can have a King, but the man to fear is the tax assessor. ~ Anonymous citizen of Lasgash