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Italian Financial Crisis: A.D. 33
- wazoox 16y agoI'm wondering where these detailed informations come from. I don't remember that there were that much financial details in Tacitus, Suetonius and al. (though I didn't reread them recently).
- fbnt 16y agoThis is the same feeling I often get watching history channel or the likes. Sometime I wish I was an historian, because some level of details and certain conclusions on facts happened thousands of years ago just sounds made up for entertainment purposes. I'm wrong, obviously, but I'd like to see somebody with the right knowledge trying to prove the contrary.
- wazoox 16y agoHow sad to become old :) It's there in Tacitus' Annals, book 6, chapters XVI and XVII; Suetonius, life of Tiberius, chapter XLVIII. No mention of the bankers' names though.
- alecco 16y agoA longer account of this crisis from 1910: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Influence_of_Wealth_in_Imperial_Rome/The_Business_Panic_of_33_A.D http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Influence_of_Wealth_in_Imp....
- cstuder 16y agoThe link is broken, apparently the Hacker News url-regex is stripping the last dot from your url.
- nlavezzo 16y agoI really love ancient western history - there are so many relevant lessons to be learned.