Civic honours The politics of honour in the Greek cities of the Roman

Civic honours
The politics of honour in the Greek cities of the Roman
Empire
Papers gathered and edited by Anna Heller and Onno van Nijf
Table of content
Anna Heller and Onno van Nijf: Introduction. Civic honours, from Classical to Roman times
Part 1. The economy of honour: financial and symbolic exchanges
Olivier Gengler: Praise and honour
Anne Gangloff: Les timai dans le discours civique et moral à la fin du Ier siècle apr. J.-C.
Henri-Louis Fernoux: La gestion des statues honorifiques à Rhodes à la fin du Ier siècle apr.
J.-C. d’après le Rhodiakos de Dion de Pruse (Or. XXXI)
Francesco Camia: The financing of public honours in Greece during the Roman imperial
period. The case of honorary statues in the cities of the Greek mainland
Andrew Farrington: The use of -ν(ε)ίκης compounds in public inscriptions and the role of the
civic elite as competitors in contests
Part 2. Honorific communities: competition and negotiation
Sophie Lalanne: Le témoignage de Chariton d’Aphrodisias sur la pratique civique des
honneurs
Arjan Zuiderhoek: Un-civic benefactions? Gifts to non-citizens and civic honours in the
Greek cities of the Roman East
Christina Kuhn: The refusal of the highest honours in Roman Asia Minor
Nikos Giannakopoulos: Decrees awarding offices for life and by hereditary right as honours
Part 3. The impact of Rome: integration and domination
Sofia Zoumbaki: Westerners in the poleis of Greek mainland and adjacent islands. The
evolution of the bilateral relations in the light of honorific texts
Jelle Stoop: Between polis and empire: statues for Romans abroad
Gabrielle Frija: Les honneurs des cités d’Asie aux proches des gouverneurs
Eric Guerber: Curateurs de cités et honneurs civiques
Annika Kuhn: Honouring Senators and Equestrians in the Graeco-Roman East
Olivier Ventroux: Honneurs publics et réminiscences royales à Pergame sous le Haut-Empire.
La position du premier des citoyens, C. Antius Aulus Iulius Quadratus
Part 4. Cities and empire: honours between local and global
Christina Kokkinia: Martyriai. Civic honours and imperial government
Kostas Buraselis: 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
Valentina Di Napoli: “στᾶ[ν]αι δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ κατὰ φυλὴν ἀνδριάντας ἐν τῷ προσκηνίῳ”:
Honorary Statues in the Theatres of Roman Greece
Chris Dickenson: The agora as setting for honorific statues in Roman Greece
Martin Szewczyk: L’iconographie des honneurs civiques statuaires pour les notables
d’époque impériale
Jean-Baptiste Yon: Le reflet des honneurs