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Benefactors and the polis, the public gift in the Greek cities from the Homeric world to late antiquity, edited by Marc Domingo Gygax, Arjan Zuiderhoek

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Benefactors and the polis, the public gift in the Greek cities from the Homeric world to late antiquity, edited by Marc Domingo Gygax, Arjan Zuiderhoek

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eng

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index present

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non fiction

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Benefactors and the polis

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electronic resource

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dictionaries

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1196820119

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edited by Marc Domingo Gygax, Arjan Zuiderhoek

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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

the public gift in the Greek cities from the Homeric world to late antiquity

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Benefactors and the polis, a long-term perspective / Marc Domingo Gygax, Arjan Zuiderhoek -- Heroic benefactors? The limits of generosity in Homer / Hans van Wees -- The garden of Pisistratus : benefits and dues in archaic Athens / Beate Wagner-Hasel -- Classical Athens and the invention of civic euergetism / Marc Domingo Gygax -- The scale of benefaction / Robin Osborne -- The politics of endowments / Sitta von Reden -- 'To be magnanimous and grateful' : the entanglement of cities and empires in the Hellenistic Aegean / Rolf Strootman -- Socially embedded benefaction on Delos / John Tully -- Emperors, benefaction and honorific practice in the Roman imperial Greek polis / Carlos Norena -- Benefactors and the poleis in the Roman Empire : civic munificence in the Roman East in the context of the longue duree / Arjan Zuiderhoek -- Festivals and benefactors / Onno van Nijf -- Bishops and the politics of lithomania in early Byzantium / Daniel Caner -- Euergetism, Christianity and municipal culture in late antiquity, from Aquileia to Gerasa (fourth-sixth centuries CE) / Christophe Goddard -- Conclusion / Marc Domingo Gygax, Arjan Zuiderhoek

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