The Economy and Society of Pompeii.

The Economy and Society of Pompeii.

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Superior document:Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology
:
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)
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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.

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