Publication

2017-10-26 - Brill

Language

English

Word Count

138,000 words, Guess

Page Count

552 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCDF82.P57 2017

Description

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 monuments through which it is accessible. The focus is on the Imperial period (1-3 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.

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