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