Did the Romans live better than us? | Quality of Life (History Documentary)

Exploring the quality of life of three different Romans, using the Edict on Maximum Prices by Diocletian and the Mediterranean Respectability Basket by historian Robert Allen to determine Roman Standard of Living.
Chapters:
Intro (0:00)
Sponsor (1:38)
Tenant Farmer (2:35)
Soldier (7:53)
Aristocrat (13:48)

Primary sources:
-Inscriptiones Graecae, XII, III, 343. -BCH 188o, 336-8. -CIL V, 895:
-Lactantius, De Mortibus Persecutorum.

Secondary Sources:
-Allen, R. “How prosperous were the Romans? The evidence of Diocletian’s Price Edict (AD 301).” A. K. Bowman and A. I. Wilson, eds., Quantifying the Roman economy: methods and problems, Oxford, 2009, 327–45.
-Barnes, T. D. The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1982.
-Corcoran, S. The empire of the Tetrarchs: imperial pronouncements and government AD 284–324, Oxford, 2000, 205–33.
-Goffart, W. Caput and Colonate: Towards a history of Late Roman Taxation. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1974.
-Jones, A.H.M. “Census Records of the Later Roman Empire”, The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 43, 1953, 49-64.
-Kropff, A. An English translation of the Edict on Maximum Prices, also known as
the Price Edict of Diocletian.
-Williams, Stephen. Diocletian and the Roman Recovery.New York: Routledge, 1997.

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