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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199248486

ISBN-139780199248483

eBay Product ID (ePID)2210593

Product Key Features

Number of Pages348 Pages

Publication NameRoman Patrons of Greek Cities

LanguageEnglish

SubjectPolitical Process / General, Ancient / General, Ancient / Greece

Publication Year2002

TypeTextbook

AuthorClaude Eilers

Subject AreaPolitical Science, History

SeriesOxford Classical Monographs

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight20.2 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.7 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2003-276954

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"The author collects rather than analyzes data. Such books last. A careful index locorum allows easy access to specific texts. The welcome book will ease study of the subject rather than changing it." -- Religious Studies Review"This monograph will be essential for anyone interested in the institution of Roman patronage and its history throughout the Roman Empire, not only from the point of view of patrons but also of clients, both individual and collective."--New England Classical Journal, This book will be of interest to teachers and students who wish to pursue the wider context of Roman patronage. There is something here for the reader of Cicero and those interested in Rome and its provinces., '...a throough but highly readable treatment of the subject of Roman patronage of Greek cities.'Arjan Zuiderhoek, "The author collects rather than analyzes data. Such books last. A careful index locorum allows easy access to specific texts. The welcome book will ease study of the subject rather than changing it." -- Religious Studies Review "This monograph will be essential for anyone interested in the institution of Roman patronage and its history throughout the Roman Empire, not only from the point of view of patrons but also of clients, both individual and collective."--New England Classical Journal

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal938/.09

Table Of ContentIntroduction1. Becoming a Client2. Patronage by Conquest3. The Inheritance of Patronage4. What City Patrons Did5. The Appearance of Patrons in the Greek East6. Patronage of Cities in the Late Republic: Incidence and Effectiveness7. The Decline of PatronageConclusions and ImplicationsAppendices 1. Patrons of Cities of the Greek East2. Catalogue Index3. Patrons of Eastern Coloniae4. Patrons of Greek Cities in the High Empire5. The City Clients of Caesar, Augustus, and the Imperial Family6. Senatorial Patrons of Cities in the Latin-speaking Provinces

SynopsisThe rise and fall of city patrons in the Greek East is linked to the fundamental changes that took place during the fall of the Republic and the transition to the Principate. This discursive treatment of the origins, nature, and decline of this type of patronage, and its place in Roman practice as a whole, is supplemented by a reference catalogue of Roman patrons of Greek communities., Patronage has long been an important topic of interest to ancient historians. It remains unclear what patronage entailed, however, and how it worked. Is it a universal phenomenon embracing all, or most, relationships between unequals? Or is it an especially Roman practice? In previous discussions of patronage, one crucial body of evidence has been under-exploited: inscriptions from the Greek East that borrow the Latin term 'patron' and use it to honour their Roman officials. The fact that the Greeks borrow the term patron suggests that there was something uniquely Roman about the patron-client relationship. Moreover, this epigraphic evidence implies that patronage was not only a part of Rome's history, but had a history of its own. The rise and fall of city patrons in the Greek East is linked to the fundamental changes that took place during the fall of the Republic and the transition to the Principate. Senatorial patrons appear in the Greek inscriptions of the Roman province of Asia towards the end of the second century BC and are widely attested in the region and elsewhere for the following century. In the early principate, however, they become less common and soon more or less disappear. Eilers's discursive treatment of the origins, nature, and decline of this type of patronage, and its place in Roman practice as a whole, is supplemented by a reference catalogue of Roman patrons of Greek communities., Patronage has been an important topic of interest to ancient historians, but it remains unclear what patronage entailed and how it worked. An examination of inscriptions from the Greek East, however, implies that the practice whereby Romans became patrons of Greek cities was not only a part of Rome's history, but had a history of its own. Its rise and fall in the Greek East is linked to the last period of the Republic and the transition to the Principate.

LC Classification NumberDE59.E55 2002