Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: Technologies of Power in Roman Britainby C. Forcey ."apartfrom the better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us ?(Monty Python s Life of Brian 1992:20).Rabbi Judah began and said: "how excellent are the deeds of this nation.They have instituted market places , they have instituted bridges, they have instituted baths" ... Rabbi Simeon ben Yohai answered and said "all that they have instituted they have instituted only for their own needs.They have instituted the market places to place harlots in them; baths, for their own pleasure; bridges to collect toll" ...
Author: C. Forcey
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2761438089