A blog by classicist Peter Gainsford examining and correcting popular myths about the ancient world through close reading of primary sources. This post traces the salt money interpretation of the Latin salarium to a speculative 1771 dictionary entry rather than to any ancient testimony.
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AuthorPeter Gainsford
PublisherKiwi Hellenist
URLhttps://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2017/01/salt-and-salary.html
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A classicist's own academic blog, written by a named scholar holding a doctorate in Classics, correcting a specific historical myth through citation to primary and secondary scholarship, though not itself peer reviewed. Sources
Salt and Salary: Were Roman Soldiers Paid in Salt? (Kiwi Hellenist)
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This source backs 6 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested.
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