Benefactors and the Polis (eBook, ePUB)

The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity
Redaktion: Gygax, Marc Domingo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Historians generally study elite public gift-giving in ancient Greek cities as a phenomenon that gained prominence only in the Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods. The contributors to this volume challenge this perspective by offering analyses of various manifestations of elite public giving in the Greek cities from Homeric times until Late Antiquity, highlighting this as a structural feature of polis society from its origins in the early Archaic age to the world of the Christian Greek city in the early Byzantine period. They discuss existing interpretations, offer novel ideas and arguments, and stress continuities and changes over time. Bracketed by a substantial Introduction and Conclusion, the volume is accessible both to ancient historians and to scholars studying gift-giving in other times and places.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108901253
• Artikelnr.: 62746614

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Benefactors and the polis: a long-term perspective Marc
Domingo Gygax and Arjan Zuiderhoek; Part I. Benefiting the Community in
Early Greece: 1. Heroic benefactors? The limits of generosity in Homer Hans
van Wees; 2. The garden of Pisistratus: benefits and dues in archaic Athens
Beate Wagner-Hasel; Part II. Classical Benefactors: 3. Classical Athens and
the invention of civic euergetism Marc Domingo Gygax; 4. The scale of
benefaction Robin Osborne; Part III. Hellenistic Benefactors: 5. The
politics of endowments Sitta von Reden; 6. 'To be magnanimous and
grateful': the entanglement of cities and empires in the Hellenistic Aegean
Rolf Strootman; 7. Socially embedded benefaction on Delos John Tully; Part
IV. Benefactors and the Polis under Rome: 8. Emperors, benefaction and
honorific practice in the Roman imperial Greek polis Carlos Noreña; 9.
Benefactors and the poleis in the Roman Empire: civic munificence in the
Roman East in the context of the longue durée Arjan Zuiderhoek; 10.
Festivals and benefactors Onno van Nijf; Part V. The Decline and Fall of
Euergetism?: 11. Bishops and the politics of lithomania in early Byzantium
Daniel Caner; 12. Euergetism, Christianity and municipal culture in Late
Antiquity, from Aquileia to Gerasa (fourth¿sixth centuries CE) Christophe
Goddard; Conclusion Marc Domingo Gygax and Arjan Zuiderhoek; Index.