This thesis disagrees with the notion that "for an elite male Roman, privacy was hard to achieve." By presenting several literary fragments dealing with withdrawal, and combining these to rooms...Show moreThis thesis disagrees with the notion that "for an elite male Roman, privacy was hard to achieve." By presenting several literary fragments dealing with withdrawal, and combining these to rooms within Roman society specifically designed for this purpose, the goal was to add new data and arguments to the debate regarding privacy. The outline of the thesis is as following: in the first chapter a classification and categorisation regarding the flexible concept of 'alone' will be presented. After this, the chapters two and three will comprise the datasets (textual and archaeological) of references and ways to withdraw. The final chapter analyses these datasets and concludes with what these thoughts can mean in light of the debate.Show less
This thesis investigates and discusses the rise and decline of the Baetican oil industry in the context of some of the wider economic, social and political developments in the Roman world between...Show moreThis thesis investigates and discusses the rise and decline of the Baetican oil industry in the context of some of the wider economic, social and political developments in the Roman world between the 1st and 3rd century AD.The focus lies on the influence of the Ius latii and the Roman conquests in northern Europe on the process of oil and amphorae production in Baetica as well as the patterns of oil distribution across the western Roman empire and Rome. The thesis also investigates the role and influence of the Roman state on the development of oil production and export and inscriptions on amphorae.Show less
