Pliny in Bithynia – And What Followed
By Barbara Levick
Abstract: In this article, Levick discusses Pliny the Younger’s posting to Bithynia, a Roman province south of the Black Sea. She contests that this sought to address the mismanagement of urban resources (through corruption, lavish spending etc), the competition between cities, classes and other groups, and the fundamental problem which she identifies as causing the decline of the Roman Empire – the downturn in the fortunes of the polis.
Academic journal article in: Greece & Rome, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Oct., 1979), pp. 119-131.
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