Politics of Honour in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire

Anna Heller is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Tours. Her main interest lies in the social and institutional history of the Greek city under Roman rule, as it emerges from the epigraphical evidence from Asia Minor.Onno van Nijf is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Groningen. He is a specialist on the Greek world under Roman rule. He has published on social and political history, and athletics in the later Greek city.Contributors are: Kostas Buraselis, Francesco Camia, Christopher Dickenson, Valentina Di Napoli, Henri-Louis Fernoux, Gabrielle Frija, Anne Gangloff, Olivier Gengler, Nikos Giannakopoulos, Eric Guerber, Christina Kokkinia, Annika Kuhn, Christina Kuhn, Sophie Lalanne, Martin Szewczyk, Olivier Ventroux, Jean-Baptiste Yon, Sophia Zoumbaki, Arjan Zuiderhoek

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Civic Honours, from Classical to Roman TimesAnna Heller and Onno van NijfPart 1: The Economy of Honour: Financial and Symbolic Exchanges1 Praise and HonourOlivier Gengler2 Les timai dans le discours civique et moral à la fin du ier siècle ap. J.-C.Anne Gangloff3 La gestion des statues honorifiques à Rhodes à la fin du ier siècle ap. J.-C. d’après le Rhodiakos de Dion de Pruse (Or. XXXI)Henri Fernoux4 The Financing of Public Honours in Greece during the Roman Imperial Period: The Case of Honorary Statues in the Cities of the Greek MainlandFrancesco CamiaPart 2: Honorific Communities: Competition and Negotiation5 Le témoignage de Chariton d’Aphrodisias sur la pratique civique des honneursSophie Lalanne6 Un-civic benefactions?: Gifts to Non-citizens and Civic Honours in the Greek Cities of the Roman EastArjan Zuiderhoek7 The Refusal of the Highest Honours by Members of the Urban Elites in Roman Asia MinorChristina T. Kuhn8 Decrees Awarding Offices for Life and by Hereditary Right as HonoursNikos GiannakopoulosPart 3: The Impact of Rome: Integration and Domination9 Romans in the poleis of Greek Mainland and Adjacent Islands: The Evolution of their Relations in the Light of Honorific TextsSophia Zoumbaki10 Les honneurs des cités d’Asie aux proches des gouverneursGabrielle Frija11 Curateurs de cités et honneurs civiquesÉric Guerber12 Honouring Senators and Equestrians in the Graeco-Roman EastAnnika B. Kuhn13 Le premier des citoyens à Pergame sous le Haut-Empire : C. Antius Aulus Iulius QuadratusOlivier VentrouxPart 4: Cities and Empire: Honours between Local and Global14 Martyriai: Civic Honours and Imperial GovernmentChristina Kokkinia15 On the Rhetoric of Imperial Majesty: Elements of the Ideological Interaction between Emperor and Imperial Society on the Basis of Civic Decrees, Imperial Pronouncements and Literary Testimonies in the Greek EastKostas Buraselis16 “στᾶ[ν]αι δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ κατὰ φυλὴν ἀνδριάντας ἐν τῷ προσκηνίῳ”: Honorary Statues in the Theatres of Roman GreeceValentina Di Napoli17 The Agora as Setting for Honorific Statues in Roman GreeceChristopher Dickenson18 L’iconographie des honneurs civiques statuaires pour les notables d’époque impérialeMartin Szewczyk19 Le reflet des honneursJean-Baptiste YonIndex