The Politics Of Munificence In The Roman Empire
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Author |
: Arjan Zuiderhoek |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 205 |
Release |
: 2009-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521519304 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521519306 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire by : Arjan Zuiderhoek
A study of public benefactions by elite individuals to their communities in Roman Asia Minor.
Author |
: Arjan Zuiderhoek |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0511517424 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780511517426 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire by : Arjan Zuiderhoek
Author |
: Arjan Zuiderhoek |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 187 |
Release |
: 2009-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139477826 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113947782X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire by : Arjan Zuiderhoek
In the first two centuries AD, the eastern Roman provinces experienced a proliferation of elite public generosity unmatched in their previous or later history. In this study, Arjan Zuiderhoek attempts to answer the question why this should have been so. Focusing on Roman Asia Minor, he argues that the surge in elite public giving was not caused by the weak economic and financial position of the provincial cities, as has often been maintained, but by social and political developments and tensions within the Greek cities created by their integration into the Roman imperial system. As disparities of wealth and power within imperial polis society continued to widen, the exchange of gifts for honours between elite and non-elite citizens proved an excellent political mechanism for deflecting social tensions away from open conflicts towards communal celebrations of shared citizenship and the legitimation of power in the cities.
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 551 |
Release |
: 2017-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004352179 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004352171 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Honour in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire by :
The volume The Politics of Honour in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire, co-edited by Anna Heller and Onno van Nijf, studies the public honours that Greek cities bestowed upon their own citizens and foreign dignitaries and benefactors. These included civic praise, crowns, proedria, public funerals, honorific statues and monuments. The authors discuss the development of this honorific system, and in particular the epigraphic texts and the monuments through which it is accessible. The focus is on the Imperial period (1st-3rd centuries AD). The papers investigate the forms of honour, the procedures and formulae of local practices, as well as the changes in local honorific habits that resulted from the integration of the Greek cities in the Roman Empire.
Author |
: Shanshan Wen |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2022-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004516878 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004516875 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Communal Dining in the Roman West by : Shanshan Wen
Communal Dining in in the Roman West explores why the practice of privately sponsored communal dining gained popularity in certain parts of the Western Roman Empire for almost 300 years. This book brings together 350 Latin inscriptions to examine the benefactors and beneficiaries, the geographical and chronological distributions, and the relationship between public and collegial dining practices. It argues that food-related euergetism was a region-specific phenomenon which was rooted in specific social and political cultures in the communities of Italy, Baetica and Africa Proconsularis. The region-specific differences in political cultures and long-term changes in these cultures are key to understanding not only the long persistence of this practice but also its ultimate disappearance.
Author |
: Catharine Edwards |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2002-05-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521893895 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521893893 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome by : Catharine Edwards
The decadence and depravity of the ancient Romans are a commonplace of serious history, popular novels and spectacular films. This book is concerned not with the question of how immoral the ancient Romans were but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality. The modern image of immoral Rome derives from ancient accounts which are largely critical rather than celebratory. Upper-class Romans habitually accused one another of the most lurid sexual and sumptuary improprieties. Historians and moralists lamented the vices of their contemporaries and mourned for the virtues of a vanished age. Far from being empty commonplaces these assertions constituted a powerful discourse through which Romans negotiated conflicts and tensions in their social and political order. This study proceeds by a detailed examination of a wide range of ancient texts (all of which are translated) exploring the dynamics of their rhetoric, as well as the ends to which they were deployed. Roman moralising discourse, the author suggests, may be seen as especially concerned with the articulation of anxieties about gender, social status and political power. Individual chapters focus on adultery, effeminacy, the immorality of the Roman theatre, luxurious buildings and the dangers of pleasure. This book should appeal to students and scholars of classical literature and ancient history. It will also attract anthropologists and social and cultural historians.
Author |
: Michelle Marie Peralta |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:650137025 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sacerdotes Et Patronae by : Michelle Marie Peralta
Author |
: Tim Cornell |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 183 |
Release |
: 2005-06-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134756322 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134756321 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis 'Bread and Circuses' by : Tim Cornell
Cities in the ancient world relied on private generosity to provide many basic amenities. This collection of essays by leading scholars explores the important phenomenon of benefaction and public patronage in Roman Italy.
Author |
: Rick Bonnie |
Publisher |
: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2020-12-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783647522142 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3647522147 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Synagogue in Ancient Palestine: Current Issues and Emerging Trends by : Rick Bonnie
This book brings together leading experts in the field of ancient synagogue studies to discuss the current issues and emerging trends in the study of synagogues in ancient Palestine. Divided into four thematic units, the different contributions apply archaeological, textual, historical and art historical methodologies to questions related to ancient synagogues. Part One addresses issues related to the origins and early development of synagogues up to 200 CE. The contributions provide different explanations to the alleged lack of evidence for synagogues built in the second and third centuries CE and ask how much continuity or change there is between the late Second Temple and late Roman/early Byzantine synagogues. Part Two deals with architecture and dating of ancient synagogues. It gives an overview of all synagogues found so far, approaches the dating of Galilean synagogues in the light of the recently-exposed synagogue at Huqoq, and provides a stylistic re-evaluation of the Capernaum synagogue decoration. Part three examines leadership, power and daily life in late antique synagogue contexts, illustrating non-monumental inscriptions, amulets and dining in synagogue contexts as well as the role of individual benefactors. Section four contextualizes synagogue art. An overview of synagogue mosaics in late antique Palestine is complemented with reinterpretations of the mosaics two synagogues. The section also offers a discussion of the appearance of the menorah.
Author |
: Emily Hemelrijk |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 649 |
Release |
: 2015-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190463823 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190463821 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hidden Lives, Public Personae by : Emily Hemelrijk
Roman cities have rarely been studied from the perspective of women, and studies of Roman women mainly focus on the city of Rome. Studying the civic participation of women in the towns of Italy outside Rome and in the numerous cities of the Latin-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire, this books offers a new view on Roman women and urban society in the Roman Principate. Drawing on epigraphy and archaeology, and to a lesser extent on legal and literary texts, women's civic roles as priestesses, benefactresses and patronesses or 'mothers' of cities and associations (collegia and the Augustales) are brought to the fore. In contrast to the city of Rome, which was dominated by the imperial family, wealthy women in the local Italian and provincial towns had ample opportunity to leave their mark on the city. Their motives to spend their money, time and energy for the benefit of their cities and the rewards their contributions earned them take centre stage. Assessing the meaning and significance of their contributions for themselves and their families and for the cities that enjoyed them, the book presents a new and detailed view of the role of women and gender in Roman urban life.