Wealth, inequality and political culture in the cities of Roman Asia Minor, first to third centuries CE Universiteit Gent
In Roman imperial Asia Minor, urban elites first appear to have grown steadily wealthier and to have broadened during the first and much of the second century CE, then stopped growing richer and seem to have shrunk again in the third. Alongside the elites, urban professional middling groups first grew more prosperous, then mostly seem to disappear from view during the later third century. At the same time, we can discern a profound shift in ...