Description
| Product ID: | 9781108816199 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Benefactors and the Polis |
| Subtitle: | The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity |
| Authors: | Author: Arjan Zuiderhoek, Marc Domingo Gygax |
| Page Count: | 377 |
| Subjects: | Ancient history, Classical history / classical civilisation, Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Ancient Greece |
| Description: | Fresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a structural feature of polis society. Surveys the main scholarly debates on the phenomenon and continuities and changes between periods, and provides new theories and insights. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-03-10 |