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Author : Arjan Zuiderhoek
Release : 2009-04-27
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire by : Arjan Zuiderhoek
Download or read book The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire written by Arjan Zuiderhoek. This book was released on 2009-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of public benefactions by elite individuals to their communities in Roman Asia Minor.
Author : Arjan Zuiderhoek
Release : 2009
Genre : Benefactors
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire by : Arjan Zuiderhoek
Download or read book The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire written by Arjan Zuiderhoek. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arjan Zuiderhoek
Release : 2009-04-27
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire by : Arjan Zuiderhoek
Download or read book The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire written by Arjan Zuiderhoek. This book was released on 2009-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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Release : 2017-10-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 171/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Politics of Honour in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire by :
Download or read book The Politics of Honour in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire written by . This book was released on 2017-10-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 2022-06-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 875/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Communal Dining in the Roman West by : Shanshan Wen
Download or read book Communal Dining in the Roman West written by Shanshan Wen. This book was released on 2022-06-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
