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  • 6 - The Italian Curial Councils

  • Bart Danon, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    Wealth, Office and Rank in Roman Italy
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    23 July 2025
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    17 July 2025, pp 107-121
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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.

  • 11 - Timocracy, Wealth and Resilience

  • Bart Danon, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    Wealth, Office and Rank in Roman Italy
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    23 July 2025
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    17 July 2025, pp 192-201
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    This chapter argues that men with the requisite wealth for political office outside the political orders contributed to the stability of the Roman timocratic political system by serving as a reserve pool from which new magistrates and councillors were recruited. Correspondences between the surpluses of wealthy households at the senatorial, equestrian, and curial levels of the political system, and evidence of shortages of candidates at these levels, substantiate this argument.