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Anonymous Mon Jan 22 17:08:44 2018 No.10574663 [Reply] [Original]

So I got this book and started going through it. It follows the typical roman historian schema:
> village/tribe -> clan -> city-state
> Shit all over Titus Livius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus for no reason
> defensive wars
> etc etc
There were a couple things that I thought odd tho. Like when it said that the rich as fuck aristocracy, despite dominating nearly all the trade in the internum mare, were poor merchants and didnt care about trade at all

What the hell is this shit?
Anybody else read this? What did you think?
Why is it that roman historians always neglect to tell the economic side of the story

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 18:13:46 2018 No.10574753 >>10574663 The aristocrats didn't give a shit about trade, you may find it odd but having to work for your money was considered poorfag shit

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