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Kim Bowes

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01 / belief

We would see that decoration as somehow being special and fenced off because that’s the way we manage decoration in our own spaces, but not in that world. Because everything is encrusted with some sort of decoration, everything is used in ways that I think would really surprise us, too.

“We would see that decoration as somehow being special and fenced off because that’s the way we manage decoration in our own spaces, but not in that world. Because everything is encrusted with some sort of decoration, everything is used in ways that I think would really surprise us, too.”
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Kim Bowes
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Conversations with Tyler

03 / belief

I think what the maximalists of Roman technology would argue is that the Romans didn’t invent too much that hadn’t already been, at least in the works, in the Greek world.

“I think what the maximalists of Roman technology would argue is that the Romans didn’t invent too much that hadn’t already been, at least in the works, in the Greek world.”
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Kim Bowes
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Conversations with Tyler

04 / belief

” I think that’s one of the biggest things that would have surprised us in a post-Constantinian world, is how few Christians there really are, especially when you went to the countryside.

“” I think that’s one of the biggest things that would have surprised us in a post-Constantinian world, is how few Christians there really are, especially when you went to the countryside.”
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Kim Bowes
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Conversations with Tyler

05 / belief

I think, though, what you’re asking, Tyler, is what we have a harder time seeing is them making future planning around profit in a quantified way that we would understand as part and parcel of an economic thinking that involves supply and demand.

“I think, though, what you’re asking, Tyler, is what we have a harder time seeing is them making future planning around profit in a quantified way that we would understand as part and parcel of an economic thinking that involves supply and demand.”
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Kim Bowes
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Conversations with Tyler

08 / belief

In a way, the debate about these issues is, I think, probably ancient historians’ discomfort with the idea of the modern notion of futures as applied to an ancient world.

“In a way, the debate about these issues is, I think, probably ancient historians’ discomfort with the idea of the modern notion of futures as applied to an ancient world.”
Speaker
Kim Bowes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

17 / belief

What I think is most interesting and what we’re all still wrestling with is, from even before Nero onwards, Roman emperors recognized the advantage to the fisc to basically producing coins with less silver.

“What I think is most interesting and what we’re all still wrestling with is, from even before Nero onwards, Roman emperors recognized the advantage to the fisc to basically producing coins with less silver.”
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Kim Bowes
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Conversations with Tyler
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