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  • Bart Danon, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2025
Print publication year:
2025
Online ISBN:
9781009496940
Creative Commons:
Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - ND
This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Book description

Dismantling the simplistic equation of wealth, political power and social rank in the Roman empire, this study presents a new reconstruction of the distribution of elite wealth in Roman Italy based on an innovative combination of economic modelling and archaeological and epigraphic evidence. Bart Danon follows a quantitative approach to show that the Roman economic elite was in fact much larger than the political and social elites. The many wealthy households outside the socio-political orders fuelled intense competition for junior political offices, while paradoxically strengthening the resilience of the Roman political system. By challenging long-held assumptions, this book offers fresh perspectives on the complexities of wealth and power in ancient Rome. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Contents

  • Frontmatter
    pp i-iv
  • Dedication
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-vii
  • List of Figures
    pp viii-x
  • List of Tables
    pp xi-xii
  • Map of Roman Italy
    pp xiii-xiii
  • Acknowledgements
    pp xiv-xv
  • List of Abbreviations
    pp xvi-xvi
  • Introduction
    pp 1-11
  • 1 - Wealthy Italy
    pp 12-20
  • 2 - Developments in the Early Imperial Italian Economy
    pp 21-39
  • 3 - Reconstructing Historical Wealth Distributions
    pp 40-61
  • 4 - Wealth and Political Office at Pompeii
    pp 62-92
  • 5 - The Heterogeneity of the Italian Civitates
    pp 93-106
  • 6 - The Italian Curial Councils
    pp 107-121
  • 7 - Italian Households with Curial Wealth
    pp 122-143
  • 8 - Wealth Inequality among Italian Elites
    pp 144-155
  • 9 - The Italian Wealth Distribution
    pp 156-176
  • 10 - Competition for Senatorial Positions
    pp 177-191
  • 11 - Timocracy, Wealth and Resilience
    pp 192-201
  • Concluding Remarks
    pp 202-205
  • Appendix A - Dataset: Pompeian Residences
    pp 206-227
  • Appendix B - Dataset: Alimenta Pledges
    pp 228-241
  • Appendix C - Dataset: Ostian Burial Plots
    pp 242-258
  • References
    pp 259-283
  • Index
    pp 284-288

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