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Marcus Aurelius and the Equestrian Order Reform
When Marcus Aurelius took the throne, the Roman Empire's administrative machinery was creaking under the weight of the Antonine Plague and constant war. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a lesser-known but transformative aspect of his reign: his reform of the equestrian order. Marcus restructured the careers of equestrian procurators, opening high offices to men of merit regardless of birth, and even created new procuratorships to manage crisis-hit provinces. We discuss the role of the ab epistulis, the a rationibus, and how a philosopher-emperor tried to build a bureaucracy that…
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