The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire write by Arjan Zuiderhoek. This book was released on 2009-04-27. The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of public benefactions by elite individuals to their communities in Roman Asia Minor.
The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire
The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire write by Arjan Zuiderhoek. This book was released on 2009. The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire
The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire write by Arjan Zuiderhoek. This book was released on 2009-04-27. The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Politics of Honour in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire
The Politics of Honour in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Honour in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire write by . This book was released on 2017-10-10. The Politics of Honour in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome
The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome write by Catharine Edwards. This book was released on 2002-05-09. The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
