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CASE STUDY III: Was inclusion in the Roman empire desirable or undesirable?
1. Justin’s epitome of Pompeius Trogus’ 1st C BCE Philippic History 38.6.8 (Mithridates VI speaks; translated by P. Ripat)
‘The Romans themselves admit that their founders were nourished by the teats of a she-wolf, and so the whole population has the spirit of wolves, insatiable for blood, and greedy and hungry for power and wealth.’
2. Caesar Gallic War 7.77, 1st C BCE (Critognatus, a noble Gaul, speaks; Loeb Classical Library translation)
‘What else do the Romans do or want if not to go where envy has led them, and to settle on the land of those whose nobles they know by reputation and whose leaders they know by war, and to yoke them to eternal slavery? They have never waged war otherwise.’
3. Tacitus Annals 11.24, 1st C CE (the Emperor Claudius speaks to the Senate; Loeb Classical Library translation)
‘What else proved fatal to Sparta and Athens, despite their military might, but their policy of denying citizenship to the conquered? But the wisdom of our own founder Romulus was such that several times he fought and made citizens out of a people in the course of a single day!’
4. Strabo Geography 3.2.15, 1st C BCE/1st C CE (describing Spanish tribes who have been subjected to Roman power; Loeb Classical Library translation)
The Turdetanians, however, and particularly those that live about the Baetis, have completely changed over to the Roman mode of life, not even remembering their own language any more. And most of them have become Latins, and they have received Romans as colonists, so that they are not far from being all Romans. And the present jointly-settled cities, Pax Augusta in the Celtic country, Augusta Emerita in the country of the Turdulians, Caesar-Augusta near Celtiberia, and some other settlements, manifest the change to the aforesaid civil modes of life. Moreover, all those Iberians who belong to this class are called “Togati.” And among these are the Celtiberians, who were once regarded the most brutish of all.
5. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1st C BCE (Loeb Classical Library translation)
Indeed, in my opinion the three most magnificent works of Rome, in which the greatness of her empire is best seen, are the aqueducts, the paved roads and the construction of the sewers.
6. Cassius Dio 57.10.5, 2nd/3rd C CE (describing events of the 1st C CE; Loeb Classical Library translation)
All these expenditures [the emperor] Tiberius made from the regular revenues; he did not execute anyone for his money and did not (at this time) confiscate anybody's property, and he did not resort to clever tricks to take anyone’s money. In fact, when the governor of Egypt, Aemilius Rectus, once sent him more money than was required, he sent him the following message: ‘I want my sheep shorn, not plucked clean.’
7. Suetonius, Life of Tiberius, 1st C CE (describing the acts of the Emperor Tiberius, translated by J. Shelton)
The emperor Tiberius suppressed foreign cults, such as the Egyptian and Jewish religions, by forcing those who embraced such superstitions to burn their religious vestments and all their holy objects. Using required military service as a pretext, he assigned young Jews to provinces with harsher climates. Other men of that same race or belonging to similar cults he banished from the city under penalty of lifelong slavery if they did not obey.
8. Pliny Natural History 30.4, 1st C CE (describing the Druids before and after subjection to the Romans; Loeb Classical Library translation)
The Gallic provinces, too, were pervaded by the magic art,and that even down to a period within memory; for it was the Emperor Tiberius that put down their Druids,and all that tribe of wizards and physicians. … Such being the fact, then, we cannot too highly appreciate the obligation that is due to the Roman people, for having put an end to those monstrous rites, in accordance with which, to murder a man was to do an act of the greatest devoutness, and to eathis flesh was to secure the highest blessings of health.
9. Column of Marcus Aurelius, 2nd C CE (depicting scenes from the victorious wars over the Germans)
10. Diodorus Siculus 23.18.4-5, 1st C BCE describing the sack of Palermo by the Romans in 254 BCE (translated by J. Shelton)
The Romans dropped anchor in the harbor, close to the walls of the city, and disembarked their military forces. They built a palisade and a ditch to put the city under siege. … Then they made continuous assaults with their siege machines and finally broke down the wall. When they gained control of the outer part of the city, they killed many people. The survivors fled to the heart of the city and sent ambassadors to the Roman consuls to ask that their lives be spared. They agreed that those people who each paid two minae [i.e. the average price of a slave at the time] would go free; then the Romans took possession of the city. Fourteen thousand people found the money and met the terms of the agreement and were released. The rest, thirteen thousand in number, were sold [into slavery] by the Romans as booty along with the other loot.
