So if I understand correctly, @mewalters101, @marjoriegalelli, @dr_tgpeterson, @BrianDrohan, @natkpowell, and I will participate in a roundtable on pacification and all its related elements.
Stay tuned for a digital host platform.
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I suppose one could argue then that mass indiscriminate killings were partly a result of the prohibitive costs of intelligence collection?
Roman authorities often rely on local leaders for intelligence collection (this is clearest, ironically, in the persecution of Christians). I think the better way of seeing mass violence is 'exemplary violence' is one a in the Roman toolbox. pour encourager les autres.
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And the Romans tend to pick targets for such violence - and even commemorate such violence - in ways that I think clearly intend to communicate that to other members of the same group or other groups.
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Like the IUDAEA CAPTA coins, which commemorated the very violent suppression of the First Jewish Revolt (66-73), which were minted and distributed, pretty much empire wide - but *especially* in Judaea itself as a warning.
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