The Economy and Society of Pompeii.

• Superior document: Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology
• Author: Jongman, Willem.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©1988.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- THEECONOMY AND SOCIETY OF POMPEII -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF PLATES -- PREFACE -- I QUESTIONS AND RULES -- The ambiguity of development -- The ancient economy: Finley and his critics -- Economics, anthropology, and the ancient economy -- The comparative historical perspective -- Why Pompeii? -- A prospect of the argument -- PART ONE: ECONOMY -- II INTRODUCING THE PROBLEM -- Population: the mouths to feed -- Production: agricultural -- Population and production, a theoretical approach -- lntensification and urbanism -- III AGRICULTURE -- The liquid meal? -- Geography and literary descriptions -- population -- The archaeology of the villas -- Survey theory and distribution praxis -- Amphorae and wine growing -- Wine growers and villa owners -- Aggregate supply and demand -- Deduction as an alternative tactic: location theory -- A comparison with early modern Campania -- IV URBAN MANUFACTURING, THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY -- Why textiles? -- The supply of raw material -- Scale: spinning and weaving -- Scale: dyeing, feltmaking and fulling -- The fullers as entrepreneurs? -- Social status and political involvement -- A guildhall? -- Conclusion and a digression -- V EPILOGUE -- Elite income and expenditure: a flow model of the Italian economy? -- Conclusion -- PART TWO: SOCIETY -- VI THE DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY -- An introduction to the questions -- An introduction to the data -- Some economic observations -- Some social aspects -- Handling the sources -- The construction of prestige rankings -- Wealth -- Personal legal status -- Political office-holding -- Correlating indices of status -- Prestige and political office -- Legal status and prestige -- Prestige and wealth -- Political office and legal status -- Wealth and legal status -- Wealth and political office.

Combining the correlations: a model -- The position of our data within Pompeian society -- VII POWER AND OBLIGATION -- 'Politics' -- Pompeian democracy? -- The language of obligation -- Support from the many -- Support from the few -- APPENDICES -- Appendix I: Contradictions in prestige ratings -- Appendix II: lucundus' witnesses -- Appendix III: The houses of some witnesses -- Appendix IV: How many witnesses? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- PLATES.