Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City - The Origins of Euergetism

Informationen zum Autor Marc Domingo Gygax is Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton University and author of Untersuchungen zu den lykischen Gemeinwesen in klassischer und hellenistischer Zeit (2001). His main interests lie in ancient Greek history, historical anthropology, historical theory and modern historiography. Klappentext Studies the nature and development of Greek 'euergetism' from its origins to the Hellenistic period, through the prism of gift exchange. Zusammenfassung This is the first analysis of the origins of one of the most distinctive features of the ancient Greek city-state: the exchange of gifts and honours between benefactors and the community of citizens. It will be important not only for specialists in ancient Greek history but also for historians of later periods and for social scientists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Synchronic approaches; 2. Creating an institution; 3. Continuity and change (1): foreigners and athletes; 4. Continuity and change (2): citizens; 5. The generalization of euergetism; Conclusions.

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• Authors: Marc Domingo Gygax, Marc Domingo Gygax, Gygax Marc Domingo
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2016
• EAN: 9780521515351
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51535-1
• No. of pages: 333
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory