The Politics of Honour in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Civic Honours, from Classical to Roman Times -- Part 1 The Economy of Honour: Financial and Symbolic Exchanges -- Chapter 1 Praise and Honour -- Chapter 2 Les timai dans le discours civique et moral à la fin du ier siècle ap. J.-C. -- Chapter 3 La gestion des statues honorifiques à Rhodes à la fin du ier siècle ap. J.-C. d'après le Rhodiakos de Dion de Pruse (Or. XXXI) -- Chapter 4 The Financing of Public Honours in Greece during the Roman Imperial Period: The Case of Honorary Statues in the Cities of the Greek Mainland -- Part 2 Honorific Communities: Competition and Negotiation -- Chapter 5 Le témoignage de Chariton d'Aphrodisias sur la pratique civique des honneurs -- Chapter 6 Un-civic Benefactions?: Gifts to Non-citizens and Civic Honours in the Greek Cities of the Roman East -- Chapter 7 The Refusal of the Highest Honours by Members of the Urban Elite in Roman Asia Minor -- Chapter 8 Decrees Awarding Offices for Life and by Hereditary Right as Honours -- Part 3 The Impact of Rome: Integration and Domination -- Chapter 9 Romans in the poleis of Greek Mainland and Adjacent Islands: The Evolution of Their Relations in the Light of Honorific Texts -- Chapter 10 Les honneurs des cités d'Asie aux proches des gouverneurs -- Chapter 11 Curateurs de cités et honneurs civiques -- Chapter 12 Honouring Senators and Equestrians in the Graeco-Roman East -- Chapter 13 Le premier des citoyens à Pergame sous le Haut-Empire : C. Antius Aulus Iulius Quadratus -- Part 4 Cities and Empire: Honours between Local and Global -- Chapter 14 Martyriai: Civic Honours and Imperial Government.

Chapter 15 On the Rhetoric of Imperial Majesty: Elements of the Ideological Interaction between Emperor and Imperial Society on the Basis of Civic Decrees, Imperial Pronouncements and Literary Testimonies in the Greek East -- Chapter 16 "στᾶ[ν]αι δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ κατὰ φυλὴν ἀνδριάντας ἐν τῷ προσκηνίῳ": Honorary Statues in the Theatres of Roman Greece -- Chapter 17 The Agora as Setting for Honorific Statues in Roman Greece -- Chapter 18 L'iconographie des honneurs civiques statuaires pour les notables d'époque impériale -- Chapter 19 Le reflet des honneurs -- Index of Sources -- A Literary Texts -- B Inscriptions -- C Papyri -- D Numismatic Sources -- Index of Names and Subjects.

The Politics of Honour in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire studies the honorific habits in the later Greek city, and in particular the honorific inscriptions that were set up for citizens, magistrates and (foreign) benefactors.

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