How Democratic Was the Roman Republic?
The votes of citizens of all classes were worth courting despite biased voting systems that gave greater weight to the votes of rural property owners or those whose wealth put them in the middle or upper ranks of the census classes.
Children as Office Holders and Benefactors in the Eastern Part of the Roman Empire
One of the most striking features of euergetism in the Román imperial period was the participation in public Ufe of individuáis belonging to previously «marginal» groups: women, children even -to a certain extent- «freed slaves» and their descendants.