The Politics of Honour in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy) (English and French Edition)

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 the monuments through which it is accessible. The focus is on the Imperial period (1st-3rd centuries 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. Contents 6 Acknowledgements 10 List of Illustrations 11 List of Tables 13 List of Contributors 14 Introduction: Civic Honours, from Classical to Roman Times 16 Part 1 The Economy of Honour: Financial and Symbolic Exchanges 44 Chapter 1 Praise and Honour 46 Chapter 2 Les timai dans le discours civique et moral à la fin du ier siècle ap. J.-C. 74 Chapter 3 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) 96 Chapter 4 The Financing of Public Honours in Greece during the Roman Imperial Period: The Case of Honorary Statues in the Cities of the Greek Mainland 124 Part 2 Honorific Communities: Competition and Negotiation 162 Chapter 5 Le témoignage de Chariton d’Aphrodisias sur la pratique civique des honneurs 164 Chapter 6 Un-civic Benefactions?: Gifts to Non-citizens and Civic Honours in the Greek Cities of the Roman East 197 Chapter 7 The Refusal of the Highest Honours by Members of the Urban Elite in Roman Asia Minor 214 Chapter 8 Decrees Awarding Offices for Life and by Hereditary Right as Honours 235 Part 3 The Impact of Rome: Integration and Domination 258 Chapter 9 Romans in the poleis of Greek Mainland and Adjacent Islands: The Evolution of Their Relations in the Light of Honorific Texts 260 Chapter 10 Les honneurs des cités d’Asie aux proches des gouverneurs 287 Chapter 11 Curateurs de cités et honneurs civiques 306 Chapter 12 Honouring Senators and Equestrians in the Graeco-Roman East 332 Chapter 13 Le premier des citoyens à Pergame sous le Haut-Empire : C. Antius Aulus Iulius Quadratus 354 Part 4 Cities and Empire: Honours between Local and Global 386 Chapter 14 Martyriai: Civic Honours and Imperial Government 388 Chapter 15 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 East 401 Chapter 16 “στᾶ[ν]αι δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ κατὰ φυλὴν ἀνδριάντας ἐν τῷ προσκηνίῳ”: Honorary Statues in the Theatres of Roman Greece 412 Chapter 17 The Agora as Setting for Honorific Statues in Roman Greece 447 Chapter 18 L’iconographie des honneurs civiques statuaires pour les notables d’époque impériale 470 Chapter 19 Le reflet des honneurs 511 Index of Sources 542 A Literary Texts 542 B Inscriptions 543 C Papyri 545 D Numismatic Sources 545 Index of Names and Subjects 546 La 4e de couverture indique : "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 (1st-3rd centuries 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."