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The property market was a key and dynamic economic sector in Ancient Rome. This book takes a multisided insight into real estate as the subject of short- and long-term economic investments, of speculative and businesses ventures, of power abuses and inequalities, of social aspirations, but also of essential housing needs.
List of contents
1 Embedded, Eclectic, Elusive: The Real Estate Market and the Roman Economy;
PART I Concepts and Control 2 Government Intervention in Real Estate in the Roman World; 3 Beyond Price: Constructions of Value and the Real Estate Market in Ancient Rome;
PART II Land, Property, and Law 4 Land and Securing the Future in the Roman Empire; 5 Praedia agris meis vicina atque etiam inserta venalia sunt: A Reflection on the Modalities and Effects of the Circulation of Agrarian Properties between the Late Republic and the Principate; 6 The Real Estate Market in the Campanian Wax-Tablets;
PART III Social Status, Forms of Investment, and the Roman Elite 7 Understanding the Roman Real Estate Market: A Case Study of Information Constraints and Behaviour; 8 Ocelli Italiae: Senatorial villae as Information Hubs; 9 A Luxury Maritime Villa on the Sorrento Peninsula: When Real Estate Does Not Make Financial Sense; 10 Property Management and Social Patronage: The gens Neratia in Rome and Central-Southern Italy between the Second and the Fourth Centuries AD;
PART IV Urban Businesses 11 "Two of My Shops Have Collapsed...": Real Estate and Predatory Urban Practices in Late Republican Central Italy; 12 The horrea: How Storage Engaged with Shipping Flows and Made the Roman Economy Bigger;
PART V Properties Beyond Italy 13 Imperial Properties in the North-Western Provinces: Possible Patterns of Acquisition and Sale; 14 The Real Estate Markets in Roman Egypt
About the author
Marta García Morcillo is an Ancient Historian and Research Fellow at Durham University.
Cristina Rosillo-López is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville.
Summary
The property market was a key and dynamic economic sector in Ancient Rome. This book takes a multisided insight into real estate as the subject of short- and long-term economic investments, of speculative and businesses ventures, of power abuses and inequalities, of social aspirations, but also of essential housing needs.
