Roman Asia Minor

Zuiderhoek, Arjan

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Commemoration and Élite Benefaction of Buildings and Spectacles in the Roman World

2015

J. Rom. Stud.

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Current scholarship on élite munificence in the Roman Empire often sees architectural benefactions as being at least partially driven by the élite desire for personal commemoration. I use juristic opinions from theDigestand other textual evidence related to building gifts to argue that there was an ancient understanding of the physical and symbolic ephemerality of architectural benefactions. In contrast, I present legal and epigraphic evidence to argue that there was an explicit expectation for gifts of spectacles and monetary distributions to be lasting memorials for their donors, and that the perpetuation of identity was also a motivating factor in the euergetic choice of a spectacle.

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“…Coleman (2008: 41) points to this case as evidence for the common occurrence of a combined public and private funding of large civic construction projects. See also Zuiderhoek 2013: 182 and Zuiderhook 2009, 29–31.…”

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2015

J. Rom. Stud.

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Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos

Kalinowski

2021

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This is the first book to analyse urban social relations in the eastern Roman Empire through the perspective of one elite family. From the late first to the mid-third century CE, the Vedii and their descendants were magistrates, priests and priestesses of local and imperial cults, and presided over Ephesos' many religious festivals. They were also public benefactors, paying for the construction of public buildings for the pleasure of fellow citizens. This study examines the material evidence of their activities - the buildings with their epigraphic and decorative programs – to show how members of the family created monuments to enhance their own and their family's prestige. It also discusses the inscriptions of the honorific statue monuments raised by the city and its sub-groups for the family in return for their benefactions, arguing that these reflect the community's values and interests as much as they commemorate the benefactors and their families.

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The Maeander Valley

Thonemann

2011

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This book is a study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor, from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD. Using an astonishing breadth of sources, ranging from Byzantine monastic archives to Latin poetic texts, ancient land records to hagiographic biographies, Peter Thonemann reveals the complex and fascinating interplay between the natural environment and human activities in the Maeander valley. Both a large-scale regional history and a profound meditation on the role played by geography in human history, this book is an essential contribution to the history of the Eastern Mediterranean in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the Byzantine Middle Ages.

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Roman Asia Minor

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Commemoration and Élite Benefaction of Buildings and Spectacles in the Roman World

Commemoration and Élite Benefaction of Buildings and Spectacles in the Roman World

Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos

The Maeander Valley

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