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Benefactors and the Polis
  • Benefactors and the Polis
  • The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity
  • Edited by Marc Domingo Gygax, Arjan Zuiderhoek
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date: January 2021
  • Print publication: 04 February 2021
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    Historians generally study elite public gift-giving in ancient Greek cities as a phenomenon that gained prominence only in the Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods. The contributors to this volume challenge this perspective by offering analyses of various manifestations of elite public giving in the Greek cities from Homeric times until Late Antiquity, highlighting this as a structural feature of polis society from its origins in the early Archaic age to the world of the Christian Greek city in the early Byzantine period. They discuss existing interpretations, offer novel ideas and arguments, and stress continuities and changes over time. Bracketed by a substantial Introduction and Conclusion, the volume is accessible both to ancient historians and to scholars studying gift-giving in other times and places.
The Ancient City
  • The Ancient City
  • Arjan Zuiderhoek
  • Published online: 10 November 2016
  • Print publication: 31 October 2016
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    Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and developed in the context of the polis and the civitas. In modern scholarship, the ancient city has been the subject of intense debates due to the strong association in Western thought between urbanism, capitalism and modernity. In this book, Arjan Zuiderhoek provides a survey of the main issues at stake in these debates, as well as a sketch of the chief characteristics of Greek and Roman cities. He argues that the ancient Greco-Roman city was indeed a highly specific form of urbanism, but that this does not imply that the ancient city was somehow 'superior' or 'inferior' to forms of urbanism in other societies, just (interestingly) different. The book is aimed primarily at students of ancient history and general readers, but also at scholars working on urbanism in other periods and places.
  • Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Ancient City as Concept and Reality
  • Arjan Zuiderhoek, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
  • Book: The Ancient City
  • Published online: 10 November 2016
  • Print publication: 31 October 2016, pp 1-19
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