The politics of honour in the Greek cities of the Roman empire /
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 funera...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2017.
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| Series: | Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy,
volume 8 |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: civic honours, from classical to Roman times / Anna Heller and Onno van Nijf
- Part I. The economy of honour: financial and symbolic exchanges
- Praise and honour / Olivier Gengler
- Les timai dans le discours civique et moral a la fin du Ier siecle ap. j.-c. / Anne Gangloff
- La gestion des statues honorifiques a Rhodes a la fin du Ier siecle ap. j.-c. d'apres le Rhodiakos de Dion de Pruse (Or. xxxi) / Henri-Louis Fernoux
- The financing of public honours in Greece during the Roman imperial period: the case of honorary statues in the cities of the Greek mainland / Francesco Camia
- Part II. Honorific communities: competition and negotiation
- Le temoignage de Chariton d'Aphrodisias sur la pratique civique des honneurs / Sophie Lalanne
- Un-civic benefactions?: gifts to non-citizens and civic honours in the Greek cities of the Roman east / Arjan Zuiderhoek
- The refusal of the highest honours by members of the urban elites in Roman Asia Minor / Christina T. Kuhn
- Decrees awarding offices for life and by hereditary right as honours / Nikos Giannakopoulos
- Part III. The impact of Rome: integration and domination
- Romans in the poleis of Greek mainland and adjacent islands: the evolution of their relations in the light of honorific texts / Sofia Zoumbaki
- Les honneurs des cites d'Asie aux proches des gouverneurs / Gabrielle Frija
- Curateurs de cites et honneurs civiques / Eric Guerber
- Honouring senators and equestrians in the Graeco-Roman east / Annika B. Kuhn
- Le premier des citoyens a pergame sous le Haut-empire: C. Antius, Aulus Iulius Quadratus / Olivier Ventroux
- Part IV. Cities and empire: honours between local and global
- Martyriai: civic honours and imperial government / Christina Kokkinia
- On the rhetoric of imperial majesty: elements of the ideological interaction between emperor and imperial society on the basis of civic decrees, imperial pronouncements and literary testimonies in the Greek east / Kostas Buraselis
- Honorary statues in the theatres of Roman Greece / Valentina Di Napoli
- The agora as setting for honorific statues in Roman Greece / Christopher Dickenson
- L'iconographie des honneurs civiques statuaires pour les notables d'epoque imperiale / Martin Szewczyk
- Le reflet des honneurs / Jean-Baptiste Yon.
