Political culture in the Greek city after the classical age / edited by Onno M. van Nijf & Richard Alston with the assistance of C.G. Williamson.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Nijf, Onno van, 1961-
• Alston, Richard, 1965-
• Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Series:

• Groningen-Royal Holloway studies on the Greek city after the Classical Age
• Groningen-Royal Holloway studies on the Greek city after the classical age ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• City-states--Greece--History--Congresses.
• Cities and towns, Ancient--Congresses.
• Politics and government.
• Cities and towns, Ancient.
• City-states.
• History.
• Greece--Politics and government--146 B.C.-323 A.D--Congresses.
• Greece.

Genre:

• Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters, 2011.

Summary:

In the transformations of the Classical world from Alexander to the end of the Roman Umpire, the politics of the Greek polis underwent crucial changes. Yet, the city retained a vibrant urban political culture. These essays explore that culture and seek to explain the continued importance of city politics in the changing political environments of antiquity. The contributors question long-established interpretative traditions and seek to establish new ways of understanding the politics of the Greek city after the Classical age. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Chapter 1 'Ils étaient dans la ville, mais tout à fait en dehors de la cité.Æ Status and identity in private religious associations in Hellenistic Athens / Ilias Arnaoutoglou Arnaoutoglou, Ilias 27
• Chapter 2 Where the Non-Delians met in Delos. The meeting-places of foreign associations and ethnic communities in Late Hellenistic Delos / Monika Trümper Trümper, Monika 49
• Chapter 3 Ethnic minorities in Hellenistic Egypt / Dorothy J. Thompson Thompson, Dorothy J. 101
• Chapter 4 Money for the polis. Public administration of private donations in Hellenistic Greece / Kaja Harter-Uibopuu Harter-Uibopuu, Kaja 119
• Chapter 5 Kings and cities in the Hellenistic Age / Rolf Strootman Strootman, Rolf 141
• Chapter 6 Pride and participation. Political practice, euergetism, and oligarchisation in the Hellenistic polis / Edward Ch. L. van der Vliet Vliet, Edward Ch. L. van der 155
• Chapter 7 Oligarchs and benefactors. Elite demography and euergetism in the Greek east of the Roman Empire / Arjan Zuiderhoek Zuiderhoek, Arjan 185
• Chapter 8 Reconstructing the political life and culture of the Greek cities of the Roman Empire / Giovanni Salmeri Salmeri, Giovanni 197
• Chapter 9 Public space and the political culture of Roman Termessos / Onno M. van Nijf Nijf, Onno M. van 215
• Chapter 10 The councillor's dilemma. Political culture in third-century Roman Egypt / Laurens E. Tacoma Tacoma, Laurens E. 243
• Chapter 11 Households as communities? Oikoi and poleis in Late Antique and Byzantine Egypt / Roberta Mazza Mazza, Roberta 263
• Chapter 12 The oikoi and civic government in Egypt in the fifth and sixth centuries / James Tuck Tuck, James 287.

Notes:

• Papers from a workshop held in 2003, Groningen.
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

• 9789042923195
• 9042923199

OCLC:

747037923

Online:

The Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund Home Page