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Commerce and Social Standing in Ancient Rome / John H. D'Arms.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1981Edition: Reprint 2013Description: 1 online resource (201 p.) : illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780674331181
  • 9780674331198
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 380.1/0937
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- 1. Traders in Roman Society: Two Approaches -- 2. Attitudes, Conduct, and Commercial Organization in the Late Republic -- 3. Senators and Commerce -- 4. Luxury, Productivity, and Decline: Villa Society on the Bay of Naples -- 5. The "Typicality" of Trimalchi -- 6. The Freedmen of Puteoli and Ostia in Imperial Economy and Society -- 7. Attitudes, Conduct, and Commercial Organization in the Early Empire -- Appendix. Augustales of Puteoli and Ostia -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: John D'Arms explores here a question of central importance for the social economic history of the Roman world: which sectors of society were actively engaged in trade? In the late Roman Republic and early Empire senators were prohibited by law from direct participation in seaborne commerce; trade was not considered a respectable pursuit. Yet large fortunes were amassed by men of rank through a variety of lucrative enterprises. Exploiting the evidence of literature, archaeology, and inscription, D'Arms constructs case histories which reveal how senators realized commercial profits by indirect involvement: freedmen, municipal notables, and "friends" often served as the equivalent of partners or agents of aristocrats with large holdings in land. In demonstrating a flexibility in upper-class attitudes toward commercial activity, he offers a study in the adaptation of a social system to economic realities.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- 1. Traders in Roman Society: Two Approaches -- 2. Attitudes, Conduct, and Commercial Organization in the Late Republic -- 3. Senators and Commerce -- 4. Luxury, Productivity, and Decline: Villa Society on the Bay of Naples -- 5. The "Typicality" of Trimalchi -- 6. The Freedmen of Puteoli and Ostia in Imperial Economy and Society -- 7. Attitudes, Conduct, and Commercial Organization in the Early Empire -- Appendix. Augustales of Puteoli and Ostia -- Bibliography -- Index

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John D'Arms explores here a question of central importance for the social economic history of the Roman world: which sectors of society were actively engaged in trade? In the late Roman Republic and early Empire senators were prohibited by law from direct participation in seaborne commerce; trade was not considered a respectable pursuit. Yet large fortunes were amassed by men of rank through a variety of lucrative enterprises. Exploiting the evidence of literature, archaeology, and inscription, D'Arms constructs case histories which reveal how senators realized commercial profits by indirect involvement: freedmen, municipal notables, and "friends" often served as the equivalent of partners or agents of aristocrats with large holdings in land. In demonstrating a flexibility in upper-class attitudes toward commercial activity, he offers a study in the adaptation of a social system to economic realities.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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