Benefactors and the polis : the public gift in the Greek cities from the Homeric world to late antiquity

Weitere Verfasser: Domingo Gygax, Marc , [HerausgeberIn]
Zuiderhoek, Arjan, 1976- , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Umfang/Format: xvii, 359 pages ; 24 cm
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Parallelausgabe: Benefactors and the polis (Online version:) | ISSN: 9781108895859
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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 Noreña
  • Benefactors and the poleis in the Roman Empire : civic munificence in the Roman East in the context of the longue durée / 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.