Memory, family, and community in Roman Ephesos / Angela Kalinowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalinowski, Angela V., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Turkey--Ephesus (Extinct city).

Families.

Ephesus (Extinct city)--History.

Ephesus (Extinct city).

Ephesus (Extinct city)--Antiquities, Roman.

Ephesus (Extinct city)--Social conditions.

Ephesus (Extinct city)--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 447 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This is the first book to analyse urban social relations in the eastern Roman Empire through the perspective of one elite family. From the late first to the mid-third century CE, the Vedii and their descendants were magistrates, priests and priestesses of local and imperial cults, and presided over Ephesos' many religious festivals. They were also public benefactors, paying for the construction of public buildings for the pleasure of fellow citizens. This study examines the material evidence of their activities - the buildings with their epigraphic and decorative programs - to show how members of the family created monuments to enhance their own and their family's prestige. It also discusses the inscriptions of the honorific statue monuments raised by the city and its sub-groups for the family in return for their benefactions, arguing that these reflect the community's values and interests as much as they commemorate the benefactors and their families.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos

Context

Structure of This Study

1 Community, Identity, and Memory in Roman Ephesos

Ephesos as a milieu de mémoire: Memory is Inscribed on the City

Euergetism and Its Monuments

Ephesian and Roman Identities

Communities and Inscriptions

Inscribing Communities

Monuments, Materiality, and Memory

Collective Memory and Rituals That Keep in Mind

Conclusions

2 The Vedii: A Family's History in Ephesos

The Earliest Vedii: Italian Origins, Italian Cultural Affiliation

The Vedii of Ephesos: Family Strategies

The Union of the Vedii Antonini and the Claudii

The Union of the Vedii and the Flavii, Twice

The Flavii Vedii: Descendants of Vedia Phaedrina and T. Flavius Damianus

What's in a Name? A Genealogical Inscription, Onomastics, and Memory

3 ''Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!'' The Vedii and the Goddess of Ephesos

Ephesos, Artemis, and Her Festivals

A Priestess of Artemis: Vedia Marcia

The Prytaneion, prytaneis, and kourêtes in Ephesos

The Vedii and the Cults of the Prytaneion

Gifts to Artemis: The So-called Stoa of Damianus

Gifts to Artemis: A Dining Hall in Her temenos

Gifts to Artemis: An Inheritance

Commemorating Generosity: A Family Statue Group (In Fact, Two)

4 Fun and Games in Roman Ephesos: The Vedii, the Agonistic Festivals, and the Imperial Cult

The Great Epheseia

The Olympia of Ephesos

The Hadrianeia [Commodeia]

The Great Asklepieia

The Vedii as Priests and Priestesses of the Imperial Cult

The philovedioi philoploi: The Vedii as Owners of a ludus in Ephesos

Conclusions.

5 The Vedii and the Associations of Ephesos

Professional Associations in Ephesos: Membership and Civic Integration

Associations and Honorific Practices

IvE 727: The Wool-workers Honor P. Vedius Antoninus

IvE 3075: The Temple Carpenters (??????? ???????) Honor P. Vedius Antoninus

IvE 728: The 'People in the Food Business' Honor P. Vedius Antoninus

IvE 2065: The Teachers of the Mouseion Honor P. Vedius Antoninus

IvE 3079: The Androkleidai 'Doing Business in This Place' Honor P. Vedius Papianus Antoninus

IvE 730: The Koresseitai 'from the Gate to the Stadium' Honor P. Vedius Papianus Antoninus (Fig. 4.1)

IvE 672 and 3080: The Agora and the plateia Honor T. Flavius Damianus

6 The Vedii and Their Civic Buildings in Ephesos

The Bouleuterion: Urban Context, Inscriptions, Statues

The Vedius Bath-gymnasium: Urban Context, Inscriptions, Statues

The East Bath-gymnasium: Urban Context, Inscriptions, Statues

The Varius Baths

The Harbor Works of T. Flavius Damianus: Between Public and Private

Other Building Interventions of the Vedii

Conclusions The Vedii: A Family's Place in the Community and in the Commemorative Landscape of Ephesos

Statues and Memory

Euergetism and Civic Space - The Family is Inscribed on the Landscape of the City

Getting Attention beyond the City

Appendix Who's Who among the Ephesian Vedii and Flavii Vedii

First Generation

P. Vedius [Antoninus]

Second Generation

P. Vedius Antoninus I (Vedius I, 'Adoptivvater')

Vedia Marcia

Third Generation

P. Vedius Antoninus II (Vedius II, 'Adoptivsohn')

Ofellia Phaedrina

Fourth Generation

P. Vedius Antoninus III (Vedius III, 'Bauherr')

Valeria Lepida

Flavia Papiane

Fifth Generation

P. Vedius Papianus Antoninus (Vedius IV, 'Erblasser')

Vedia Papiane

Vedia Phaedrina.

T. Flavius Damianus

Sixth Generation

T. Flavius Vedius Antoninus

T. Flavius Damianus

T. Flavius Phaedrus

T. Flavius Papianus

Flavia Phaedrina

Flavia Lepida

Flavia Pasinice

Flavia Annia Apelliane

Seventh Generation

T. Flavius Vedius Apellas

T. Flavius Vedius Damianus

Incerta: Inscriptions of Uncertain Assignment

Bibliography

Subject Index

Index of Inscriptions.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Jul 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-80707-0

1-108-80273-7

1-108-77513-6

OCLC:

1258782822