The Poltics of Munificence in the roman empire: Citizens, Elites and Benefactors in Asia Minor
This book concentrates on a central paradox of Roman social and political life under the Empire: how a society of such breathtaking inequality could produce an elite whose generosity towards their communities was, in terms of its sheer scope and extent, probably unique in the history of pre-indust...
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oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-346452014-01-20T01:47:52Z The Poltics of Munificence in the roman empire: Citizens, Elites and Benefactors in Asia Minor Zuiderhoek, Arjan Poltics Munificence This book concentrates on a central paradox of Roman social and political life under the Empire: how a society of such breathtaking inequality could produce an elite whose generosity towards their communities was, in terms of its sheer scope and extent, probably unique in the history of pre-industrial civilisations. The book focuses on Roman Asia Minor, an area particularly rich in cities, inscriptions and benefactors, but I wish to suggest tentatively that at least some of its conclusions could serve as working hypotheses for the study of euergetism in other regions of the Empire. List of maps, tables and figures page ix Acknowledgements x List of abbreviations xii Introduction 1 1 Introducing euergetism: questions, definitions and data 3 What was euergetism? 6 Why Asia Minor? 12 Elites and non-elites 14 The data 16 Chronology 17 2 The size and nature of gifts 23 Elite munificence: a quantitative assessment 24 The size and nature of benefactors’ gifts 28 Conclusion 35 3 The icing on the cake? 37 What if there were no benefactions? 37 The state of civic finances 40 Superfluous benefactors 49 Conclusion 51 4 The concentration of wealth and power 53 Growing elite wealth 53 Increasing oligarchisation 60 Growing social tensions 66 5 The politics of public generosity 71 Benefactions: the civic ideal and civic hierarchy 71 Civic surroundings: gifts towards public building 78 Citizens and hierarchies: gifts of games, festivals and distributions 86 Conclusion and a digression 1096 Giving for a return: generosity and legitimation 113 Hierarchy and its justification 115 A model of legitimation 117 Social turnover and the ‘individualism’ of honorific rhetoric 133 Social continuity in power 140 Legitimation of oligarchic rule in a wider context: the absence of exploitation and the entitlements of citizenship 146 Conclusion 150 Epilogue: The decline of civic munificence 154 Appendix 1: List of source references for the benefactions assembled in the database 160 Appendix 2: Capital sums for foundations in the Roman east (c. i–iii ad) 167 Appendix 3: Public buildings, distributions, and games and festivals per century (N = 399) 170 Bibliography 171 Index 180 2013-07-16T06:50:11Z 2013-07-16T06:50:11Z 2009 Book 978-0-511-51791-4 http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/34645 en application/pdf Cambridge University |
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This book concentrates on a central paradox of Roman social and political life under the Empire: how a society of such breathtaking inequality could produce an elite whose generosity towards their communities was,
in terms of its sheer scope and extent, probably unique in the history of
pre-industrial civilisations. The book focuses on Roman Asia Minor, an area particularly rich in cities, inscriptions and benefactors, but I wish to suggest tentatively that at least some of its conclusions could serve as working hypotheses for the study of euergetism in other regions of the Empire. |
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