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

by: Heller, A. van Nijf, O.M.

The volume The Politics of Honour in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire, co-edited by Anna Heller and Onno van Nijf, studies the public honours that Greek cities bestowed upon their own citizens and foreign dignitaries and benefactors. These included civic praise, crowns, proedria, public funerals, honorific statues and monuments. The authors discuss the development of this honorific system, and in particular the epigraphic texts and the monuments through which it is accessible. The focus is on the Imperial period (1st-3rd centuries AD). The papers investigate the forms of honour, the procedures and formulae of local practices, as well as the changes in local honorific habits that resulted from the integration of the Greek cities in the Roman Empire.

Preliminary Material
Pages: i–xiv

Introduction: Civic Honours, from Classical to Roman Times
By: Anna Heller and Onno M. van Nijf
Pages: 1–27

Praise and Honour
By: Olivier Gengler
Pages: 29–58

Les timai dans le discours civique et moral à la fin du ier siècle ap. J.-C.
By: Anne Gangloff
Pages: 59–80

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)
By: Henri Fernoux
Pages: 81–108

The Financing of Public Honours in Greece during the Roman Imperial Period
The Case of Honorary Statues in the Cities of the Greek Mainland
By: Francesco Camia
Pages: 109–146

Le témoignage de Chariton d?Aphrodisias sur la pratique civique des honneurs
By: Sophie Lalanne
Pages: 147–181

Un-civic Benefactions?
Gifts to Non-citizens and Civic Honours in the Greek Cities of the Roman East
By: Arjan Zuiderhoek
Pages: 182–198

The Refusal of the Highest Honours by Members of the Urban Elite in Roman Asia Minor
By: Christina T. Kuhn
Pages: 199–219

Decrees Awarding Offices for Life and by Hereditary Right as Honours
By: Nikos Giannakopoulos
Pages: 220–242

Romans in the poleis of Greek Mainland and Adjacent Islands: The Evolution of Their Relations in the Light of Honorific Texts
By: Sofia Zoumbaki
Pages: 243–271

Les honneurs des cités d?Asie aux proches des gouverneurs
By: Gabrielle Frija
Pages: 272–290

Curateurs de cités et honneurs civiques
By: Éric Guerber
Pages: 291–316

Honouring Senators and Equestrians in the Graeco-Roman East
By: Annika B. Kuhn
Pages: 317–338

Le premier des citoyens à Pergame sous le Haut-Empire : C. Antius Aulus Iulius Quadratus
By: Olivier Ventroux
Pages: 339–369

Martyriai: Civic Honours and Imperial Government
By: Christina Kokkinia
Pages: 371–385

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
By: Kostas Buraselis
Pages: 386–396

“στᾶ[ν]αι δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ κατὰ φυλὴν ἀνδριάντας ἐν τῷ προσκηνίῳ”: Honorary Statues in the Theatres of Roman Greece
By: Valentina Di Napoli
Pages: 397–431

The Agora as Setting for Honorific Statues in Roman Greece
By: Christopher Dickenson
Pages: 432–454

L?iconographie des honneurs civiques statuaires pour les notables d?époque impériale
By: Martin Szewczyk
Pages: 455–495

Le reflet des honneurs
By: Jean-Baptiste Yon
Pages: 496–526

Index of Sources
Pages: 527–530

Index of Names and Subjects
Pages: 531–537

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

by: Heller, A. van Nijf, O.M.

• ISBN-13: 9789004329591 / 978-90-04-32959-1
• ISBN-03: 9004329595 / 90-04-32959-5
• E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2017