The pauperization of the Roman populace during the later Republican period : with special reference to Frumentarian laws and distributions.
Year: 1930
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The history of Rome tells us of two great movements, namely. the expansion of the city by the River Tiber into an Empire embracing the civilized world of the day; and the political and constitutional development by which the institutions of a small farming community were adapted to the government, first of Italy, then of the Roman Empire. Interwoven with these two great movements in the fabric of Roman history, like coloured threads which, scarcely discernible at first, seem gradually to increase in number until the whole material is dominated by them, may be traced the rise and growth of the Roman Populace and its ever-increasing pauperism. [...]
Source: eScholarship@McGill (McGill)
DOI: 10.82308/19372
Author: McHarg, Muriel Stenning.
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7032984865