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Colin Elliott

Colin Elliott is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University and host of The Pax Romana Podcast. He is author of Pox Romana: The Plague that Shook the Roman World (Princeton, 2024) and Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy (Cambridge, 2020).


Articles by Colin Elliott

Colosseum.

A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history

By Colin Elliott | Biosecurity