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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.
Contents
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 resiliance; Concluding remarks.