Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman EmpireThe Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late twentieth century research university. In approaching this problem, Clifford Ando does not ask the ever fashionable question,