The politics of munificence in the Roman Empire: citizens, elites and benefactors in Asia Minor
In: Greek culture in the Roman world
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In: Studies in Roman space and urbanism
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Part I Introducing the Themes -- 1 Introduction: Space, Movement and the Economy in Roman Cities -- Ancient Views -- Modern Debates -- Urban Space and Economies -- Notes -- References -- 2 Economic Space and Movement Between Roman Towns, Their suburbia and Territories: The Regional Perspective -- Introduction -- A Regionally Based Landscape Approach -- The Urban System of Central Adriatic Italy -- Movement and Connectivity in Suburbium and Countryside -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Spaces -- 3 Beyond Pompeii and Ostia: Commerce and Urban Space in Roman Italy -- Introduction -- Pompeii: Building Tabernae in a Large Roman City -- Ostia: Commercial Investment in the Shadow of Rome -- (1) Cities Where the Taberna Was a Marginal Phenomenon -- (2) Cities Where the Taberna Was Widespread But Investment remained Modest in Nature -- (3) Cities Where Tabernae Were Constructed in Larger Numbers -- (4) Cities With Large-Scale Commercial Investment -- Urban Commercial Landscapes in Roman Italy -- Comparing Urban Commercial Landscapes: Towards a Historical Framework -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Market Buildings in Asia Minor: Old Assumptions and New Starting Points -- Introduction -- Commercial Buildings? Reviewing the Literature -- Lauter -- Machatschek and Schwarz -- Köse -- Cavalier -- The Problems -- Definition -- The Meaning of Buildings -- New Avenues For Research -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Do Economic Activities Impinge On Roman Urban Matrices in Asia Minor? A New Style/function Debate -- Setting the Scene -- Urbanism in Asia Minor -- Case Study: Ancient Sagalassos -- The Urban Framework -- The Townsfolk -- Meanwhile in the Countryside.
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.
In: Key themes in ancient history
"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"--
In: Oxford studies on the Roman economy
In: Oxford scholarship online
Investment in capital and innovation in its uses are often considered the linchpin of modern economic growth, but has this always been so? This volume aims to shed new light on the ancient Roman economy in this book-length contribution focusing on the allocation and uses of capital and credit and the role of innovation in the Roman world.
In: Oxford studies on the Roman economy
"Explanation of the success and failure of the Roman economy is one of the most important problems in economic history. As an economic system capable of sustaining high production and consumption levels, it was unparalleled until the early modern period. This volume focuses on how the institutional structure of the Roman Empire affected economic performance both positively and negatively. An international range of contributors offers a variety of approaches that together enhance our understanding of how different ownership rights and various modes of organization and exploitation facilitated or prevented the use of land and natural resources in the production process. Relying on a large array of resources -- literary, legal, epigraphic, papyrological, numismatic, and archaeological -- chapters address key questions regarding the foundations of the Roman Empire's economic system. Questions of growth, concentration and legal status of property (private, public, or imperial), the role of the state, content and limitations of rights of ownership, water rights and management, exploitation of indigenous populations, and many more receive new and original analyses"--Jacket
In: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/415958
In the Hellenistic period, cities were the cornerstones of imperial rule. Cities were the loci for the acquisition of capital and manpower, and imperial agents (philoi) were recruited for a large part among Greek civic elites. This chapter departs from the dual premise that premodern empires are negotiated enterprises and that they are often networks of interaction rather than territorial states. The relentless competition between three rival superpowers in the Hellenistic Aegean – the Seleukid, Ptolemaic and Antigonid Empires – gave cities a good bargaining position vis-à-vis these empires. The fact that the imperial courts were dominated by philoi from the Aegean poleis moreover meant that these cities held a central and privileged place in Hellenistic imperialism, and benefited greatly from it. Royal benefactions structured imperial-local interactions. They were instrumental in a complex of reciprocal gift-exchange between empires and cities. Empires most of all needed capital, loyalty and military support. As kings were usually short of funds, the gifts by which they hoped to win the support of cities against their rivals often came in the form of immaterial benefactions like the granting of privileges and the protection of civic autonomy.
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"In recent years, the debate on Romanisation has often been framed in terms of identity, that is, how the expansion of empire impacted on the constructed or self-ascribed sense of belonging of its inhabitants. Research has often focused on the interaction between local identities and Roman ideology and practices, leading to the notion of a multicultural empire but this volume challenges this perspective by drawing attention to the processes of identity formation that contributed to an imperial identity, a sense of belonging to the political, social, cultural and religious structures of the empire. Instead of concentrating on politics and imperial administration, the volume studies the manifold ways in which people were ritually engaged in producing, consuming, organising, believing and worshipping that fitted the (changing) realities of empire, focusing on how individuals and groups tried to do things 'the right way,' the Greco-Roman imperial way. Given the deep cultural entrenchment of ritualistic practices, an imperial identity firmly grounded in such practices might well have been instrumental not just to the long-lasting stability of the Roman imperial order but also to the persistency of its ideals well into Christian late antiquity and post-Roman times"--Provided by publisher