Add to ORKGIn the Hellenistic and Roman world of the eastern Mediterranean, Greek and Greco-Roman cities came to be defined by their physical cityscape. These buildings were constructed by specific city institutions, such as the council and the assembly, and financed through city funds, mass subscription and, importantly, public benefactions. Public benefactions, which also included support for festivals and competitions, were made by certain elite and usually wealthy individuals to the benefit of a defined community of citizens (and sometimes non-citizens, as in the case of fortification walls). Institutions within the benefiting community, again the council and the assembly, acknowledged these gifts with a published decree and inscriptions or statue...
Macedonia and Thrace were a geographically expansive and culturally intertwined crossroads for peopl...
What determined the shape of economic space in Greco-Roman cities? I argue that elite intervention i...
Scholarship on late antique cities has largely conceptualized them as singular entities, either deca...
In the Hellenistic and Roman world of the eastern Mediterranean, Greek and Greco-Roman cities came t...
The cities of Hellenistic western Anatolia and Roman Asia Minor served as fora for complex social, e...
Ancient historians traditionally view the Greek cities of the later Hellenistic and Roman imperial p...
In this chapter the author identifies the chief continuities and changes in civic munificence in the...
In the first two centuries AD, the eastern Roman provinces experienced a proliferation of elite publ...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis examines the private patronage of public buildin...
In the Hellenistic period, cities were the cornerstones of imperial rule. Cities were the loci for t...
In Rough Cilicia, monumental public architecture was built in the initial phase of the social and po...
Urban elites in the Hellenistic and Roman East often contributed as benefactors to public buildings ...
With the foundation of Constantinople, Constantine the Great created a cuty highly successful in mee...
The Hellenistic period, the time after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE up until the Roma...
This chapter evaluates civic inscriptions in Greek cities as media for coordinating cooperation duri...
Macedonia and Thrace were a geographically expansive and culturally intertwined crossroads for peopl...
What determined the shape of economic space in Greco-Roman cities? I argue that elite intervention i...
Scholarship on late antique cities has largely conceptualized them as singular entities, either deca...
In the Hellenistic and Roman world of the eastern Mediterranean, Greek and Greco-Roman cities came t...
The cities of Hellenistic western Anatolia and Roman Asia Minor served as fora for complex social, e...
Ancient historians traditionally view the Greek cities of the later Hellenistic and Roman imperial p...
In this chapter the author identifies the chief continuities and changes in civic munificence in the...
In the first two centuries AD, the eastern Roman provinces experienced a proliferation of elite publ...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis examines the private patronage of public buildin...
In the Hellenistic period, cities were the cornerstones of imperial rule. Cities were the loci for t...
In Rough Cilicia, monumental public architecture was built in the initial phase of the social and po...
Urban elites in the Hellenistic and Roman East often contributed as benefactors to public buildings ...
With the foundation of Constantinople, Constantine the Great created a cuty highly successful in mee...
The Hellenistic period, the time after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE up until the Roma...
This chapter evaluates civic inscriptions in Greek cities as media for coordinating cooperation duri...
Macedonia and Thrace were a geographically expansive and culturally intertwined crossroads for peopl...
What determined the shape of economic space in Greco-Roman cities? I argue that elite intervention i...
Scholarship on late antique cities has largely conceptualized them as singular entities, either deca...