Richard Duncan-Jones is a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and has also been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has published widely on Roman social and economic history. His previous books published by Cambridge University Press are The Economy of the Roman Empire, 2nd edition (1982), Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy (1990) and Money and Government in the Roman Empire (1994). He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1992.
Part I. Social Status and Senatorial Success: 1. Introduction: the senator
2. Social standing and its impact on careers
3. The career ladder at Rome
4. Service overseas
5. Defenders of the empire
6. Influx from the provinces
7. The chronology of the senatorial evidence
8. Career inscriptions and what they leave out
Part II. Equestrian Perspectives: 9. Defining the equites
10. The public employment of equites
11. The economic involvements of equites
12. The devaluation of equestrian rank
Part III. The Unprivileged: 13. Slavery: the background
14. Slavery as a career
Appendixes: Appendix 1. Scoring systems for senators
Appendix 2. Non-vigintiviri and additional senators
Appendix 3. The duration of army posts
Appendix 4. Details of vigintiviri
Appendix 5. Some senatorial careers
Appendix 6. Early and late priesthoods
Appendix 7. Inventory of senators in the database.
