The Roman Empire is widely admired as a model of civilisation.
In this compelling new study Neil Faulkner argues that in fact, it
was nothing more than a ruthless system of robbery and violence.
War was used to enrich the state, the imperial ruling classes and
favoured client groups. In the process millions of people were
killed or enslaved.
Within the empire the landowning elite creamed off the wealth of
the countryside to pay taxes to the state and fund the towns and
villas where they lived. The masses of people - slaves, serfs and
poor peasants - were victims of a grand exploitation that made the
empire possible. This system, riddled with tension and latent
conflict, contained the seeds of its own eventual collapse.
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