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Lomas (eds), Urban Society in Roman Italy, London, UCL Press, 1995, p. 22. With this markedly pragmatic attitude to the problems of planning went a strong concern for the prosaic virtues of material comfort. In most ancient civilizations comfort spelled luxury and was the prerogative of the privileged few. Urban life was the medium by which the Romans contrived to spread an unusually high standard of material well-being surprisingly far down the social scale. Water supply and drainage, public order, the maintenance of streets and public buildings, public entertainment, security for private property—these are only a few of the municipal services available to every citizen.
425, 426. BYZANTIUM See also LATE ANTIQUITY 1 Historians who use the phrase ‘Byzantine Empire’ are not very consistent or precise as to the date at which the ‘Roman Empire’ ends and the ‘Byzantine Empire’ begins. Sometimes the line is drawn at the foundation of Constantinople by Constantine the Great, sometimes at the death of Theodosius the Great, sometimes at the reign of Justinian, sometimes…at the reign of Leo the Isaurian; and the historian who adopts one line of division cannot assert that the historian who adopts a different line is wrong.
Harvard University Press, 1966, pp. 192–3. Copyright © 1966 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. 4 The delegation of almost all (or at least the most important) functions of law-enforcement to public authorities has had such a decisive impact on the modern perception of law and order that pre-modern societies are often characterized as showing a lack of necessary institutions and provisions. Such an approach, however, disregards the simple fact that it is not the absence but the very existence of such forces which is exceptional in universal history.