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  • The politics of munificence in the Roman Empire :citizens, elites, and benefactors in Asia Minor /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 939/.2
    書名/作者: The politics of munificence in the Roman Empire : : citizens, elites, and benefactors in Asia Minor // Arjan Zuiderhoek.
    作者: Zuiderhoek, Arjan,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (xvii, 186 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
    附註: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
    標題: Roman provinces - History.
    標題: Roman provinces - Social conditions.
    標題: Elite (Social sciences) - History. - Greece
    標題: Social classes - History. - Greece
    標題: Benefactors - History. - Greece
    標題: Gifts - Political aspects - Greece
    標題: City and town life - History. - Greece
    標題: Greece - Politics and government - To 146 B.C.
    標題: Rome - Economic conditions.
    ISBN: 9780511576508 (ebook)
    內容註: Introduction -- Introducing euergetism: questions, definitions and data -- The size and nature of gifts -- The icing on the cake? -- The concentration of wealth and power -- The politics of public generosity -- Giving for a return: generosity and legitimation -- Epilogue: the decline of civic munificence.
    摘要、提要註: In the first two centuries AD, the eastern Roman provinces experienced a proliferation of elite public generosity unmatched in their previous or later history. In this study, Arjan Zuiderhoek attempts to answer the question why this should have been so. Focusing on Roman Asia Minor, he argues that the surge in elite public giving was not caused by the weak economic and financial position of the provincial cities, as has often been maintained, but by social and political developments and tensions within the Greek cities created by their integration into the Roman imperial system. As disparities of wealth and power within imperial polis society continued to widen, the exchange of gifts for honours between elite and non-elite citizens proved an excellent political mechanism for deflecting social tensions away from open conflicts towards communal celebrations of shared citizenship and the legitimation of power in the cities.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511576508
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