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Document Details : Title: Local Elite, Equestrians and Senators Subtitle: A Social History of Roman Sagalassos Author(s): DEVIJVER, H. Journal: Ancient Society Volume: 27 Date: 1996 Pages: 105-162 DOI: 10.2143/AS.27.0.632400 Abstract : The most remarkable feature of the social structure of the Principate was the gradual and progressive integration of the local peripheral elites into the military command and the administration of the immense Roman Empire. Was it this integration, this ‘new blood’, that enabled the Empire to survive for so many centuries? Or was this phenomenon rather also responsible for the desintegration and breakup of the Imperium Romanum? It is beyond the scope of the present inquiry to give a definitive answer to this complex question. |
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