Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Map of Roman Italy
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Wealthy Italy
- 2 Developments in the Early Imperial Italian Economy
- 3 Reconstructing Historical Wealth Distributions
- 4 Wealth and Political Office at Pompeii
- 5 The Heterogeneity of the Italian Civitates
- 6 The Italian Curial Councils
- 7 Italian Households with Curial Wealth
- 8 Wealth Inequality among Italian Elites
- 9 The Italian Wealth Distribution
- 10 Competition for Senatorial Positions
- 11 Timocracy, Wealth and Resilience
- Concluding Remarks
- Appendix A Dataset: Pompeian Residences
- Appendix B Dataset: Alimenta Pledges
- Appendix C Dataset: Ostian Burial Plots
- References
- Index
6 - The Italian Curial Councils
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 July 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Map of Roman Italy
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Wealthy Italy
- 2 Developments in the Early Imperial Italian Economy
- 3 Reconstructing Historical Wealth Distributions
- 4 Wealth and Political Office at Pompeii
- 5 The Heterogeneity of the Italian Civitates
- 6 The Italian Curial Councils
- 7 Italian Households with Curial Wealth
- 8 Wealth Inequality among Italian Elites
- 9 The Italian Wealth Distribution
- 10 Competition for Senatorial Positions
- 11 Timocracy, Wealth and Resilience
- Concluding Remarks
- Appendix A Dataset: Pompeian Residences
- Appendix B Dataset: Alimenta Pledges
- Appendix C Dataset: Ostian Burial Plots
- References
- Index
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This chapter investigates the variation in the governing bodies (the curial councils) of the Italian civitates. It focuses on two aspects: the number of decurions and the census qualification for council entry. The evidence reveals a similar pattern for both of these aspects: medium-sized and larger civitates adhered to ‘canonical’ values (a hundred decurions with at least HS 100,000, likely inspired by Roman tradition), while smaller civitates deviated from this canon, probably due to local economic constraints.
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