The municipal elites of Campania during the Antonine-Severan period.
Although Campania has for centuries attracted the attention of historians, epigraphers and archaeologists, no researcher has yet produced an extensive study concerning the municipal elites of the region during the 2nd and the early 3rd century CE. 0In this book Wojciech Pietruszka fills this void by...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. |
| Series: | Philippika / Altertumskundliche Abhandlungen.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- 1. The geographical, chronological and thematic scope of the book
- 1.1 Area of research
- 1.2 Chronology
- 1.3 Definition of the elites
- 2. Sources
- 2.1 Epigraphic sources
- 2.2 Archaeological sources
- 2.3 Narrative sources
- 3. The current state of research
- 4. The composition of the work and the main research problems
- Chapter I: Campania felix or Campania deserta? Remarks on the economic prosperity of Campania in the 2nd and early 3rd c. CE
- I.1 Campania in the first half of the 1st c. CE
- Chapter IV: Composition of the ordines decurionum
- IV.1 Ordines decurionum and the demography of the ancient world:some remarks
- IV.2 Honores et munera: in search of members of the ordines decurionum in the epigraphic sources
- IV.3 "Old" aristocracy
- IV.3.1 Members of the "old" aristocracy: a catalogue
- IV.3.2 How numerous were the members of the "old" aristocracy: further questions and conclusion
- IV.4 Monopoly of power within the city senates
- IV.5 Homines novi
- IV.5.1 Descendants of freedmen in the ordines decurionum
- I.2 Natural disasters of the second half of the 1st c. CE and their impact on life within the region
- I.3 The crisis in wine production, changes in the settlement system, and the influence of the Antonine Plague on the Campanian economy
- I.4 Campanian cities
- the casus of Puteoli
- I.5 Conclusion
- Chapter II: Income of the Campanian elites
- II.1 Remarks on the Italian economy in the Roman Empire
- II.2 Agricultural income
- II.2.1 Reading the sources: research methods anda catalogue of landowners
- II.2.2 Signacula: a problematic case
- II.3 Non-agricultural income
- II.3.1 A catalogue of individuals engaged in trade
- II.3.2 A catalogue of individuals engaged in craftsmanship
- II.3.3 Other non-agricultural income: a catalogue
- II.4 Conclusion
- Chapter III: Expenditure of the Campanian elites
- III.1 Life of luxury, splendour in death: private expenditure of the Campanian municipal elites
- III.1.1 Private banquets
- III.1.2 Villas' owners
- III.1.3 Tombs
- III.1.4 Conclusion
- III.2 Euergetism
- III.2.1 A definition of euergetism
- III.2.2 Interpretation of the sources
- III.2.3 Acts of euergetism: a catalogue
- III.2.4 Conclusion
- IV.5.2 Soldiers, veterans, and their descendants: a catalogue
- IV.5.3 Nobles from other cities, immigrants and their descendants: a catalogue
- IV.5.4 Apparitores: a catalogue
- IV.5.5 Homines novi: an analysis of the sources
- IV.6 Family strategies of the nobility -adoption and marriage as a means of retaining power
- IV.6.1 Marriage
- IV.6.2 Adoption
- IV.7 Conclusion on the composition of the ordines decurionum
- Chapter V: Augustales in Campanian cities during the Antonine and Severan period.
- V.1 A priesthood or an office?