Conclusion

This chapter recapitulates the arguments of the previous chapters, while also emphasizing an overarching narrative of economic change. The book’s separate studies argue collectively for the Mid-Republic as the moment of significant change in Rome’s urban economy. Many of the structures of labor and the ways of organizing production that characterized the later Republican and Imperial city may be seen to emerge at this time. The question of what may have driven such economic change is also considered.

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