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By examining the property rights established by the Roman government, in particular the laws concerning land tenure and the contractual relationships between wealthy landowners and the tenant farmers to whom they leased their land, Dennis P. Kehoe is able to demonstrate how the state fostered economic development and who benefited the most.

A discussion of the economic life of Pompeii with reference to source material.

In the framework of the research-project elaborated by Carmine Gambardella and published in the Atlante di Pompei, this review focus on commercial products and trade routes connected with Pompeii, as an important temporal reference for Roman World. Distribution of commercial products within Roman Pompeii is determined as main focus area to investigate. With that aim, export and import actvities of ancient merchants, particularly of Pompeian traders’ are investigated through an explanatory list of commercial products.

Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, diagrams and other images, Pompeii: An Archaeological Guide offers a general introduction to the doomed city followed by an authoritative summary and survey of the buildings, artefacts and paintings themselves.

Contains selection of inscriptions, from political manifestos to gladiatorial announcements, found in the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. These inscriptions, painted and incised on walls of public and private buildings, document aspects of daily life

The calamity that proved lethal for Pompeii inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily life that has captured the imagination of generations, including Renoir, Freud, Hirohito, Mozart, Dickens, Twain, Rossellini, and Ingrid Bergman. Interwoven is the thread of Ingrid Rowland's own impressions of Pompeii.

A discussion on local politics in Pompeii, complete with analysis of sources from the archaeological sites.

Amongst the features of political life which had previously been unknown was a huge array of inscriptions painted during local elections on the outside walls of the houses. These programmata, ephemeral by their very nature, through which named or unnamed rogatores asked for votes for a particular candidate, date, in the large majority of cases, from the final years of the city.

This series of video lectures looks broadly at politics in the Republic, and has some insights into the structure and function of government throughout this time period.

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