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No one speaks in detail about the administrative mechanics of Roman imperial pol
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Date: May 17th, 2025 4:27 PM Author: irradiated center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5726393&forum_id=2...id.#48939754) |
Date: May 17th, 2025 4:41 PM Author: Self-centered impertinent library Huh? I took like five classes on this in college. Extensive details on how colonies were divided up between senatorial control and the emperor’s control, etc., etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5726393&forum_id=2...id.#48939786) |
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Date: May 20th, 2025 9:48 AM Author: irradiated center That isn't what I'm talking about--I'm not talking about the general organizational topography of Imperial administration which you can get from a Mary Beard book. Short, medium, and long-term decision-making was occurring inside the Palace of Domitian and then within the imperial court as it moved. There was likely the equivalent of a president's daily brief. There were staffers and sub-staffers. There were daily agenda. There were specialists who were relied on for specific knowledge-area expertise. Meticulous books and records were being kept. And that's only at the first node, before you get into the devolved powers within individual provinces, protectorates, etc. that your comment references. We know almost nothing about these administrative-bureaucratic loops. They were there, they necessarily must have been given the functioning of the Empire, but for various reasons (we can get into this), we don't have good documentary or archeological evidence for what they actually looked like in practice. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5726393&forum_id=2...id.#48946770) |
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Date: May 20th, 2025 9:53 AM Author: Cruel-hearted ape lettuce "what was the Adams Morgan of Rome? Where did their Senate aides go to 'blow off some steam' after work?" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5726393&forum_id=2...id.#48946784) |
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Date: May 20th, 2025 10:16 AM Author: irradiated center 83714723489714 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5726393&forum_id=2...id.#48946821) |
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Date: May 20th, 2025 10:19 AM Author: irradiated center Level III Aide to Policy Council Branch VII (Hispania, Taxation) Publius Ruinius Documus jauntily leaving Domitian's Palace (they call it "Dom's Place") to head to sub-basement of Trajan's Market to "blow off some steam" with a few of his best bros. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5726393&forum_id=2...id.#48946825) |
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Date: May 20th, 2025 10:23 AM Author: irradiated center 7 lithe roman twinks in j crew ludlow suits rushing up steps of Dom's Place holding redwelds of papyri for their diluculum meeting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5726393&forum_id=2...id.#48946836) |
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Date: May 20th, 2025 6:44 PM Author: Pungent dysfunction I have a couple of baseline questions:
1. Isn't this how the Achaemenids ran their empire? With a mobile capital that could move from place to place? It seems like the only thing Romans did differently was create written records.
2. Are the records any good? Most government records are dogshit, just as a baseline rule. The figures tend to be inaccurate and unreliable. |
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Date: May 20th, 2025 6:39 PM Author: irradiated center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5726393&forum_id=2...id.#48948670) |