Abstract:The modernising trend in the theory of Roman towns, despite the recent reaffirmation of the parasitic city (Whittaker 1995), is towards the global identification and definition of economic function. In addition to the consumer city, three models are currently prominent the Wacher Leaveau theory of the consumer town which paid for its consumption through trade; the Hopkins model in which city dwellers paid for consumption in cash, in a modernised economy driven by the need to pay taxes in coin to Rome; and the … Show more
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