Caillan Davenport is a Senior Lecturer in Roman History at Macquarie University, Sydney. He was educated at the University of Queensland and at the University of Oxford. He has been a Junior Fellow of the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies, a Rome Awardee at the British School at Rome, and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow.
Introduction: charting the history of the equestrian order
Part I. The Republic: 1. Riding for Rome
2. Cicero's equestrian order
3. Questions of status
Part II. The Empire: 4. Pathways to the principate
5. An imperial order
6. Cursus and vita (I): officers
7. Cursus and vita (II): administrators
Part III. Equestrians on Display: 8. Ceremonies and consensus
9. Spectators and performers
10. Religion and the Res Publica
Part IV. The Late Empire: 11. Governors and generals
12. The last equites Romani
Conclusion.
