Benefactors and the Polis

Marc Domingo Gygax is Professor of Classics at Princeton University. He is the author of Untersuchungen zu den lykischen Gemeinwesen in klassischer und hellenistischer Zeit (2001) and Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (Cambridge, 2016), which was joint winner of the 2017 Runciman Book Award. Arjan Zuiderhoek is an Associate Professor of Ancient History at Universiteit Gent. He is the author of The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire: Citizens, Elites and Benefactors in Asia Minor (Cambridge, 2009) and The Ancient City (Cambridge, 2017) and co-editor of Ownership and Exploitation of Land and Natural Resources in the Roman World (2015; with Paul Erdkamp and Koenraad Verboven), Imperial Identities in the Roman World (2016; with Wouter Vanacker) and Capital, Investment, and Innovation in the Roman World (2020; with Paul Erdkamp and Koenraad Verboven).

• Introduction. Benefactors and the polis: a long-term perspective Marc Domingo Gygax and Arjan Zuiderhoek; Part I. Benefiting the Community in Early Greece: 1. Heroic benefactors? The limits of generosity in Homer Hans van Wees; 2. The garden of Pisistratus: benefits and dues in archaic Athens Beate Wagner-Hasel; Part II. Classical Benefactors: 3. Classical Athens and the invention of civic euergetism Marc Domingo Gygax; 4. The scale of benefaction Robin Osborne; Part III. Hellenistic Benefactors: 5. The politics of endowments Sitta von Reden; 6. 'To be magnanimous and grateful': the entanglement of cities and empires in the Hellenistic Aegean Rolf Strootman; 7. Socially embedded benefaction on Delos John Tully; Part IV. Benefactors and the Polis under Rome: 8. Emperors, benefaction and honorific practice in the Roman imperial Greek polis Carlos Noreña; 9. Benefactors and the poleis in the Roman Empire: civic munificence in the Roman East in the context of the longue durée Arjan Zuiderhoek; 10. Festivals and benefactors Onno van Nijf; Part V. The Decline and Fall of Euergetism?: 11. Bishops and the politics of lithomania in early Byzantium Daniel Caner; 12. Euergetism, Christianity and municipal culture in Late Antiquity, from Aquileia to Gerasa (fourth–sixth centuries CE) Christophe Goddard; Conclusion Marc Domingo Gygax and Arjan Zuiderhoek; Index.

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