
Corruption in the ancient world
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Are There Any Case Studies or Jewels or Stories That Illuminate This Subject?
The emperor claudius is one of the people who gets labelled with this, are targeted er most. There is a very interesting anecdoteote that tells us about about grain dealers in antiquity. It goes back to the hellenistic periodo when sailors going from alexandria to egypt were transporting grain. The first one that arrives has a moral dilemma - he knows others are coming but they don't know how much it's worth. So there is a dialogue between two philosophers who discuss if it's fair, if it will be fair, to sell the commodity for the normal market price at the time. One says: "It's fine, because the sailor is considering that the market
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