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4 - Wealth and Political Office at Pompeii

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2025

Bart Danon
Bart Danon
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University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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This chapter investigates the relationship between wealth and officeholding in Pompeii. It presents a new reconstruction of the wealth distribution among the Pompeian elite, combining an economic model with archaeological evidence from the local housing stock. The findings suggest that there were significantly more households in Pompeii with curial and senatorial wealth than there were Pompeian decurions and senators.

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Pompeiidistribution of wealthpower-law modelsenatorsdecurionshousehold wealthprobabilistic calculations

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Wealth, Office and Rank in Roman Italy , pp. 62 - 92
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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