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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.

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Author:   Anna Heller ,  Onno M. van Nijf
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   8
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.988kg
ISBN:  

9789004329591

ISBN 10:   9004329595
Pages:   552
Publication Date:   26 October 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English, French

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Civic Honours, from Classical to Roman Times Anna Heller and Onno van Nijf Part 1: The Economy of Honour: Financial and Symbolic Exchanges 1 Praise and Honour Olivier Gengler 2 Les timai dans le discours civique et moral a la fin du ier siecle ap. J.-C. Anne Gangloff 3 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 Fernoux 4 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 2: Honorific Communities: Competition and Negotiation 5 Le temoignage de Chariton d'Aphrodisias sur la pratique civique des honneurs Sophie Lalanne 6 Un-civic benefactions?: Gifts to Non-citizens and Civic Honours in the Greek Cities of the Roman East Arjan Zuiderhoek 7 The Refusal of the Highest Honours by Members of the Urban Elites in Roman Asia Minor Christina T. Kuhn 8 Decrees Awarding Offices for Life and by Hereditary Right as Honours Nikos Giannakopoulos Part 3: The Impact of Rome: Integration and Domination 9 Romans in the poleis of Greek Mainland and Adjacent Islands: The Evolution of their Relations in the Light of Honorific Texts Sophia Zoumbaki 10 Les honneurs des cites d'Asie aux proches des gouverneurs Gabrielle Frija 11 Curateurs de cites et honneurs civiques Eric Guerber 12 Honouring Senators and Equestrians in the Graeco-Roman East Annika B. Kuhn 13 Le premier des citoyens a Pergame sous le Haut-Empire : C. Antius Aulus Iulius Quadratus Olivier Ventroux Part 4: Cities and Empire: Honours between Local and Global 14 Martyriai: Civic Honours and Imperial Government Christina Kokkinia 15 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 16 [ ] : Honorary Statues in the Theatres of Roman Greece Valentina Di Napoli 17 The Agora as Setting for Honorific Statues in Roman Greece Christopher Dickenson 18 L'iconographie des honneurs civiques statuaires pour les notables d'epoque imperiale Martin Szewczyk 19 Le reflet des honneurs Jean-Baptiste Yon Index

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Anna Heller is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Tours. Her main interest lies in the social and institutional history of the Greek city under Roman rule, as it emerges from the epigraphical evidence from Asia Minor. Onno van Nijf is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Groningen. He is a specialist on the Greek world under Roman rule. He has published on social and political history, and athletics in the later Greek city. Contributors are: Kostas Buraselis, Francesco Camia, Christopher Dickenson, Valentina Di Napoli, Henri-Louis Fernoux, Gabrielle Frija, Anne Gangloff, Olivier Gengler, Nikos Giannakopoulos, Eric Guerber, Christina Kokkinia, Annika Kuhn, Christina Kuhn, Sophie Lalanne, Martin Szewczyk, Olivier Ventroux, Jean-Baptiste Yon, Sophia Zoumbaki, Arjan Zuiderhoek

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