In the first two centuries AD, the eastern Roman provinces
experienced a proliferation of elite public generosity unmatched in
their previous or later history. In this study, Arjan Zuiderhoek
attempts to answer the question why this should have been so.
Focusing on Roman Asia Minor, he argues that the surge in elite
public giving was not caused by the weak economic and financial
position of the provincial cities, as has often been maintained,
but by social and political developments and tensions within the
Greek cities created by their integration into the Roman imperial
system. As disparities of wealth and power within imperial polis
society continued to widen, the exchange of gifts for honours
between elite and non-elite citizens proved an excellent political
mechanism for deflecting social tensions away from open conflicts
towards communal celebrations of shared citizenship and the
legitimation of power in the cities.
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