Civic honourability in Western Asia Minor from the late Attalid dynasty to the early Principate, 188 BCE to 98 CE
This is a study of the impact of Roman imperialism on the public honorific culture of the Greek cities of western Asia Minor, 188 BCE to 98 CE. It is concerned with the way that local civic languages of power, framed in the terms of reciprocal benefaction and gift- exchange, adapted to changing poli...
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| description | This is a study of the impact of Roman imperialism on the public honorific culture of the Greek cities of western Asia Minor, 188 BCE to 98 CE. It is concerned with the way that local civic languages of power, framed in the terms of reciprocal benefaction and gift- exchange, adapted to changing political structures, as Rome succeeded the earlier Seleukid and Attalid regimes. This entails relating a mass of archaeological realia for public civic discourse, as embodied in several hundred inscribed honorific decrees, statue-base inscriptions, and public dedicatory inscriptions, to known historical and political contexts, thereby composing a diachronic history of discursive and ideological change and continuity tied to specific chronological and regional boundaries. Of the five chapters, Chapters 1, 2, and 4 chart the influence of high political change. The post-Seleukid era, 188-29 BCE, witnesses an overarching Roman dominance conceived in terms of universal euergetism that affects both late Attalid euergetic self-presentation and the honorific status of local citizens, who become plenipotentiary intermediaries with Roman power. Under the principate the autocratic power of the emperor channels the ambitions of local citizens into the imperial cult, which becomes an arena for elite giving at the provincial and local levels, and encourages honorific hierarchisation and titularisation. Chapters 3 and 5 examine developments in internal political culture across these two periods. Euergetic activity in relation to gymnasia and local cults in the decades after 188 is traceable to anxieties over local identity and growing socio-economic imbalance between citizens and non-citizens; this is exacerbated in the 1st century by the presence of resident Romans, and deepening wealth inequalities, thereby giving prominence to wealth and familial descent as arguments for civic honourability. The result is a subtle change in ethos, as honorific monuments by the early empire emphasise the honorand’s memorability rather than exemplarity. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:f730421b-3c95-42ba-b124-d20241bb78ad2024-07-22T07:41:26ZCivic honourability in Western Asia Minor from the late Attalid dynasty to the early Principate, 188 BCE to 98 CEThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:f730421b-3c95-42ba-b124-d20241bb78adHistory, AncientEnglishHyrax Deposit2021Chin, MKuhn, CThis is a study of the impact of Roman imperialism on the public honorific culture of the Greek cities of western Asia Minor, 188 BCE to 98 CE. It is concerned with the way that local civic languages of power, framed in the terms of reciprocal benefaction and gift- exchange, adapted to changing political structures, as Rome succeeded the earlier Seleukid and Attalid regimes. This entails relating a mass of archaeological realia for public civic discourse, as embodied in several hundred inscribed honorific decrees, statue-base inscriptions, and public dedicatory inscriptions, to known historical and political contexts, thereby composing a diachronic history of discursive and ideological change and continuity tied to specific chronological and regional boundaries. Of the five chapters, Chapters 1, 2, and 4 chart the influence of high political change. The post-Seleukid era, 188-29 BCE, witnesses an overarching Roman dominance conceived in terms of universal euergetism that affects both late Attalid euergetic self-presentation and the honorific status of local citizens, who become plenipotentiary intermediaries with Roman power. Under the principate the autocratic power of the emperor channels the ambitions of local citizens into the imperial cult, which becomes an arena for elite giving at the provincial and local levels, and encourages honorific hierarchisation and titularisation. Chapters 3 and 5 examine developments in internal political culture across these two periods. Euergetic activity in relation to gymnasia and local cults in the decades after 188 is traceable to anxieties over local identity and growing socio-economic imbalance between citizens and non-citizens; this is exacerbated in the 1st century by the presence of resident Romans, and deepening wealth inequalities, thereby giving prominence to wealth and familial descent as arguments for civic honourability. The result is a subtle change in ethos, as honorific monuments by the early empire emphasise the honorand’s memorability rather than exemplarity. |
| spellingShingle | History, Ancient Chin, M Civic honourability in Western Asia Minor from the late Attalid dynasty to the early Principate, 188 BCE to 98 CE |
| title | Civic honourability in Western Asia Minor from the late Attalid dynasty to the early Principate, 188 BCE to 98 CE |
| title_full | Civic honourability in Western Asia Minor from the late Attalid dynasty to the early Principate, 188 BCE to 98 CE |
| title_fullStr | Civic honourability in Western Asia Minor from the late Attalid dynasty to the early Principate, 188 BCE to 98 CE |
| title_full_unstemmed | Civic honourability in Western Asia Minor from the late Attalid dynasty to the early Principate, 188 BCE to 98 CE |
| title_short | Civic honourability in Western Asia Minor from the late Attalid dynasty to the early Principate, 188 BCE to 98 CE |
| title_sort | civic honourability in western asia minor from the late attalid dynasty to the early principate 188 bce to 98 ce |
| topic | History, Ancient |
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