Wealth, Office and Rank in Roman Italy

This book dismantles the simplistic equation of wealth, political power and social rank in the Roman Eempire. Historians will appreciate the innovative approach, which combines economic modelling with archaeological and epigraphic evidence, and the fresh perspectives on the complexities of wealth and power in ancient Rome.

List of 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.

About the author

BART Danon is Assistant Professor in Ancient History at the University of Groningen. He works on the social and economic history of the Roman Empire, with a focus on inequality, urbanisation and slavery. He is a co-editor of The Uncertain Past (Cambridge, 2023).

Product details

• Authors: Bart Danon, Bart (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Danon, Bart (University of Groningen Danon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781009496964
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0949696-4
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Economic history, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, European history: the Romans