The economic system of the antiquity

The article investigates the normative model of the social-economic order of the Ancient Rome. Special attention is given to the hierarchy in the antique society, basic economic values and conceptions about the significance of the economic goods for the Romans. The article demonstrates the peculiarities of the deification of the state, stages of development and key social-economic transformations in the Ancient Rome. Roman state, economic and law institutions are asserted to have been assimilated and filled with Christian content in the Byzantine Empire. Key words: capital, property, wealth, civil community, hierarchy, deification of state, economics, Ancient Rome, Byzantine Empire.