Historians generally study elite public gift-giving in ancient
Greek cities as a phenomenon that gained prominence only in the
Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods. The contributors to this
volume challenge this perspective by offering analyses of various
manifestations of elite public giving in the Greek cities from
Homeric times until Late Antiquity, highlighting this as a
structural feature of polis society from its origins in the early
Archaic age to the world of the Christian Greek city in the early
Byzantine period. They discuss existing interpretations, offer
novel ideas and arguments, and stress continuities and changes over
time. Bracketed by a substantial Introduction and Conclusion, the
volume is accessible both to ancient historians and to scholars
studying gift-giving in other times and places.
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