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The Provinces of the Roman Empire From Caesar to Diocletian
The Provinces of the Roman Empire From Caesar to Diocletian Author:Theodor Mommsen Theodor Mommsen set out to provide a full-fledged study of the acquired provinces of the Roman Empire. It was here, rather than in the high councils of Rome itself, that the true destiny and drama of the Roman ideal was enacted. To the extent that it became a reality, the Roman concept of a civilizing world order was realized through conquest an... more »d administration--through military, legal, and cultural expansion. The resulting contact, undeniably imposed by Rome upon its provinces' indigenous peoples, eventually created a two-way street. Roman law and custom was inevitably changed by this contact and, Mommsen reminds us, great poets and philosophers, as well as several Roman emperors, came from provinces originally resistant to Roman rule.