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Three Notes on Imperial Estates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Ramsay MacMullen
Affiliation:
Brandeis University

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With the exception of what they seized or inherited from eastern kings, the Roman emperors gathered and administered their estates like private individuals. Imperial estates differed only in being bigger. For just this reason, however, more is known of them, and it is the purpose of these notes to shed light on large private holdings, and on the range of their economic potential, by looking at three unusual kinds of activity on crown lands: the raising of herds, the exploitation of forests, and the making of bricks.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1962

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