Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Rome's famous "grain dole" was only one part of a centuries-long program to subsidize the price of bread in the ancient world's largest city.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:12 Grain, glorious grain
2:14 Taxes and transport
3:22 The voyage to Rome
4:33 Raycon
5:40 The grain dole
7:11 Millers and bakers
7:40 State subsidies
8:38 Imperial ideology
9:29 Legacies