[lbo-talk] Query on Roman Empire

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 12 09:01:55 PDT 2007


There is such variety of knowledge among posters here, so I thought I would ask y'all:

I was doing a kind of thought comparison of the Russian and Ottoman Empires and their internal structures, specifically the highly multiethnic structure of their elites (which I supposed is to be expected of contiguous land empires) as opposed to the European sea empires. Which leads me to ask:

As far as we know, how multiethnic was the elite of the Roman Empire? (What the heck did "Roman" mean anyway in the late Empire? Someone of Italian birth?)

Thanks! Vale!

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