TY  - BOOK
AU  - Danon,Bart
TI  - Wealth, office and rank in Roman Italy
SN  - 9781009496940 (ebook)
AV  - DG276.5 .D366 2025
U1  - 937/.01 23/eng/20250616
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Wealth
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Rome
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - History
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - Social status
KW  - Rich people
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 30 B.C.-476 A.D
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jul 2025); Wealthy Italy -- Developments in the early imperial Italian economy -- Reconstructing historical wealth distributions -- Wealth and political office at Pompeii -- The heterogeneity of the Italian Civitates -- The Italian curial councils -- Italian households with curial wealth -- Wealth inequality among Italian elites -- The Italian wealth distribution -- Competition for senatorial positions -- Timocracy, wealth and resilience -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix A: Dataset: Pompeian residences -- Appendix B: Dataset: Alimenta pledges -- Appendix C: Dataset: Ostian burial plots; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009496940
ER  -