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Title

Les bêtises des grecs : conflits et rivalités entre cités d'Asie et de Bithynie à l'époque romaine, 129 a. C.-235 p. C / Anna Heller.

Author

Heller, Anna

Publication

Pessac : Ausonius ; Paris : Diffusion De Boccard, 2006.

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Details

Description

425 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

According to Dio Chrysostom, the constant rivalry of the cities of Asia Minor over rank and titles was mocked by the Romans, who called those honorary appellations?Greek failings?. Modern historians, following this point of view, have generally interpreted rivalries of the imperial period as vain quarrels symptomatic of the decadence of the Greek city-state. This book is an attempt to provide new insight by investigating through literary, epigraphic and numismatic evidence what was at stake, at both a material and symbolic level. It appears that some of the privileges granted to the cities, such as being capital of conventus or centre of the imperial cult, had major practical implications on the organisation of the province. At the same time, the use of titles established and expressed a symbolic hierarchy that was accepted by the Roman authorities as well as by the cities themselves. Eventually, it can be argued that this new kind of agon between cities partly replaced traditional territorial conflicts: though the weapons had changed (rhetorical art and diplomacy instead of warfare), the consequences of victory were much the same (new sources of revenues and means of domination). The old principles that had shaped intercivic relations for centuries of Greek history survived into the Roman world.

Series Statement

Scripta antiqua, 1298-1990 ; 17

Uniform Title

Scripta antiqua 17.

Subject

• To 1500
• Greeks > Middle East > History > To 1500
• Greeks > Turkey > Bithynia
• Bithynia

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 396-403) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction ; Première partie. Les conflits liés au territoire. Introduction ; Chapitre I. Avant les guerres mithridatiques, dans la continuité des conflits antérieurs ; Chapitre II. Le temps des guerres et ses conséquences ; Chapitre III. L'époque impériale : un apaisement fallacieux? ; Deuxième partie. Statuts privilégiés et sphères de domination. Chapitre IV. Le statut de capitale de conventus : justice, fiscalité, rapports de dépendance ; Chapitre V. Cultes et concours : la religion comme terrain de rivalités ; Troisième partie. Rivaliser en mots et en images. Chapitre VI. Célébrer le statut de néocore : l'origine des titulatures honorifiques dans la province d'Asie ; Chapitre VII. L'usage des titres de métropole et de première ; Conclusion. Chapitre VIII. Du territoire aux titulatures ; Annexes.

ISBN

2910023745

OCLC

• 71335827
• SCSB-11161926

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library