Thesiss

Once Rome's greatest rival for the role of capital of the Mediterranean, the North African city of Carthage was razed by the Roman consul Scipio Aemilianus in 146 BCE immediately after the Third Punic War and remained forsaken for almost a century.1 Claiming to have found the de…

This study addresses the erroneous view that the first emperor of Rome had no organized system for administrating the provinces. On the contrary, the evidence shows that Augustus employed a specific pattern for reorganizing select provincial communities to create an administrati…