History Today, July 1st, 2001
Philip de Souza considers the impact of piracy on Roman economic and political life. THE GREEK HISTORIAN and geographer Strabo, writing around the time of the death of Augustus in AD14, divided the known world into two parts. The better part was that which was subject to the Romans. Here they had installed order and people were prosperous, using the sea for the peaceful and civilised purpose of trading with each other. The rest of world, in his view, was the home of uncivilised, barbarian peoples who practised piracy and did not deserve the benefits of Roman rule. The stable conditions which...
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