Studies in ancient society,
"This volume comprises articles previously published in the historical journal, Past and Present, ranging over nearly a thousand years of Graeco-Roman history. The essays focus primarily on the Roman Empire, reflecting the increase, in British scholarship of the post-war years, of explanatory,...
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London, Boston,
Routledge and K. Paul
[1974]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Athenian demagogues / M.I. Finley
- 2. Aristotle and economic analysis / M.I. Finley
- 3. Rome and the class struggle in the Greek states 200-146 B.C. / John Briscoe
- 4. Roman mob / P.A. Brunt
- 5. Elite mobility in the Roman Empire / Keith Hopkins
- 6. Social mobility in the Early Roman Empire: the evidence of the imperial freedmen and slaves / P.R.C. Weaver
- 7. Legal privilege in the Roman Empire / Peter Garnsey
- 8. Greeks and their past in the Second Sophistic / E.L. Bowie
- 9. Why were the early Christians persecuted? / G.E.M. de Ste Croix
- 10. Why were the early Christians persecuted? An amendment / A.N. Sherwin-White
- 11. Why were the early Christians persecuted? A rejoinder / G.E.M. de Ste Croix
- 12. Failure of the persecutions in the Roman Empire / W.H.C. Frend
- 13. Roman colonate / A.H.M. Jones
- 14. Peasant revolts in Late Roman Gaul and Spain / E.A. Thompson.