Citizens In The Graeco Roman World

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004352612

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Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World by Anonim Pdf

The twelve studies contained in this volume discuss some key-aspects of citizenship from its emergence in Archaic Greece until the Roman period before AD 212, when Roman citizenship was extended to all the free inhabitants of the Empire. The book explores the processes of formation and re-formation of citizen bodies, the integration of foreigners, the question of multiple-citizenship holders and the political and philosophical thought on ancient citizenship. The aim is that of offering a multidisciplinary approach to the subject, ranging from literature to history and philosophy, as well as encouraging the reader to integrate the traditional institutional and legalistic approach to citizenship with a broader perspective, which encompasses aspects such as identity formation, performative aspect and discourse of citizenship.

Author : Bruce W. Winter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802840914

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Seek the Welfare of the City by Bruce W. Winter Pdf

In this book, Bruce W. Winter maps out the role and obligations of Christians as benefactors and citizens in their society. Winter's scholarly insight is enhanced through the selective use of important ancient literary and nonliterary sources. Contrary to the popular perception that early Christians withdrew from society and sought to maintain a low profile, this outstanding study explores the complexities of the positive commitments made by Christians in Gentile regions of the Roman empire.

Author : Adrian Nicholas Sherwin-White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015010849928

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The Roman Citizenship by Adrian Nicholas Sherwin-White Pdf

Author : John S. Kloppenborg,Stephen G. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134778577

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Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World by John S. Kloppenborg,Stephen G. Wilson Pdf

Based upon a series of detailed case studies of associations such as early synagogues and churches, philosophical schools and pagan mystery cults, this collection addresses the question of what can legitimately be termed a 'voluntary association'. Employing modern sociological concepts, the essays show how the various associations were constituted, the extent of their membership, why people joined them and what they contributed to the social fabric of urban life. For many, those groups were the most significant feature of social life beyond family and work. All of them provided an outlet of religious as well as social commitments. Also included are studies of the way in which early Jewish and Christian groups adopted and adapted the models of private association available to them and how this affected their social status and role. Finally, the situation of women is discussed, as some of the voluntary associations offered them a more significant recognition than they received in society at large.

Author : Andrew J. Turner,K. O. Chong-Gossard,Frederik Juliaan Vervaet
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004187757

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Private and Public Lies by Andrew J. Turner,K. O. Chong-Gossard,Frederik Juliaan Vervaet Pdf

Graeco-Roman literary works, historiography, and even the reporting of rumours were couched as if they came in response to an insatiable desire by ordinary citizens to know everything about the lives of their leaders, and to hold them to account, at some level, for their abuse of constitutional powers for personal ends. Ancient writers were equally fascinated with how these same individuals used deceit as a powerful tool to disguise private and public reality. The chapters in this collection examine the themes of despotism and deceit from both historical and literary perspectives, over a range of historical periods including classical Athens, the Hellenistic kingdoms, late republican and early imperial Rome, late antiquity, and Byzantium.

Author : Myles Lavan,Clifford Ando
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197573884

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Roman and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE by Myles Lavan,Clifford Ando Pdf

Introduction / Clifford Ando and Myles Lavan -- Citizenship and its alternatives : a view from the East / Ari Z. Bryen -- Fiscal semantics in the long second century : citizenship, taxation, and the constitutio Antoniniana / Lisa Pilar Eberle -- Roman citizenship, marriage with non-citizens and family networks / Myles Lavan -- Manumission, citizenship, and inheritance : epigraphic evidence from the Danube / Rose MacLean -- The onomastics of Roman citizenship in the Greek East : from 'Second Sophistic' to local epigraphic loyalty / Aitor Blanco-Pérez -- Documenting Roman citizenship / Anna Dolganov -- Citizenships and jurisdictions : the Greek city perspective / Georgy Kantor -- Experiencing Roman citizenship in the Greek East during the second century CE : local contexts for a global phenomenon / Cédric Brélaz -- Romans, aliens and others in dynamic interaction / Clifford Ando.

Author : Benjamin Isaac
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107135895

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Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World by Benjamin Isaac Pdf

This book explores how the Graeco-Roman world suffered from major power conflicts, imperial ambition, and ethnic, religious and racist strife.

Author : Peter Garnsey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521375851

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Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World by Peter Garnsey Pdf

Detailed case studies of Athens and Rome, the best known states of antiquity, reveal the effects of the breakdown of the food supply systems and response to the crisis by the masses of the ancient Mediterranean cities.

Author : Nathanael J. Andrade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107012059

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Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World by Nathanael J. Andrade Pdf

This book proposes a new means of identifying how Greek and Syrian identities were expressed in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East.

Author : Katell Berthelot,Jonathan J. Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Christians
ISBN : 9042936681

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In the Crucible of Empire by Katell Berthelot,Jonathan J. Price Pdf

This volume examines the dynamic concept and changing reality of Roman citizenship from the perspective of the provinces in Rome's vast, multi-ethnic empire, both before and after Caracalla's grant of universal citizenship in 212 CE. In Greek communities, and in Jewish and Christian conceptual and actual constructed communities, the Roman definition of citizenship had a profound impact on the shape of abstract ideas of community, discourse about communal membership and peoplehood, and legal and civic models. Just as Roman citizenship was forever redefining its restrictions and becoming ever-more inclusive, so the borders of the other communities to which Greeks, Christians and Jews claimed "citizenship" were also flexible, adaptable, dynamic.

Author : J. Paul Sampley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567656742

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Paul in the Greco-Roman World: A Handbook by J. Paul Sampley Pdf

This landmark handbook, written by distinguished Pauline scholars, and first published in 2003, remains the first and only work to offer lucid and insightful examinations of Paul and his world in such depth. Together the two volumes that constitute the handbook in its much revised form provide a comprehensive reference resource for new testament scholars looking to understand the classical world in which Paul lived and work. Each chapter provides an overview of a particular social convention, literary of rhetorical topos, social practice, or cultural mores of the world in which Paul and his audiences were at home. In addition, the sections use carefully chosen examples to demonstrate how particularly features of Greco-Roman culture shed light on Paul's letters and on his readers' possible perception of them. For the new edition all the contributions have been fully revised to take into account the last ten years of methodological change and the helpful chapter bibliographies fully updated. Wholly new chapters cover such issues as Paul and Memory, Paul's Economics, honor and shame in Paul's writings and the Greek novel.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004545632

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Understanding Integration in the Roman World by Anonim Pdf

Integration is a buzzword in the 21st century. However, academics still do not agree on its meaning and, above all, on its consequences. This book offers numerous examples showing that the inhabitants of the Roman Mediterranean were “integrated”, i.e. were aware of the existence of a common framework of coexistence, without this necessarily resulting in a process of cultural convergence. For instance, the Spanish poet Martial explicitly refused to be considered the brother of the Greek Charmenion (10.65): paradoxically, while reaffirming their differences, his satirical epigram confirms the existence of a common frame of reference that encompassed them both. Understanding integration in the Roman world requires paying attention to the complex and varied responses to diversity in Roman times.

Author : Alf Christophersen,Carsten Claussen,Jörg Frey,Bruce Longenecker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567066916

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Paul, Luke and the Graeco-Roman World by Alf Christophersen,Carsten Claussen,Jörg Frey,Bruce Longenecker Pdf

The quality of contributions in this volume reflects the eminence of Sandy Wedderburn, who taught at St Andrews before moving to Durham and finally to Munich to succeed Ferdinard Hahn. The topics addressed reflect Wedderburn's interests and include a comparison of the Lord's Supper with cultic meals in Qumran and in Hellenistic cults, glossolalia in Acts, the Lukan prologue, 'new creation' in Paul, and Adam and Christ in Romans. The contributors include David Aune, Richard Bauckham, Richard Bell, James Dunn, Ferdinand Hahn, Christina Hoegen-Rohls, Robert Jewett, Hans Klein, H.-W. Kuhn, David Moessner, Stanley Porter, Heikki Raisanen, Margaret Thrall, Oda Wischmeyer and Chrisitian Wolff. This is volume 217 in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement series.

Author : Nathanael J. Andrade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107244566

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Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World by Nathanael J. Andrade Pdf

By engaging with recent developments in the study of empires, this book examines how inhabitants of Roman imperial Syria reinvented expressions and experiences of Greek, Roman and Syrian identification. It demonstrates how the organization of Greek communities and a peer polity network extending citizenship to ethnic Syrians generated new semiotic frameworks for the performance of Greekness and Syrianness. Within these, Syria's inhabitants reoriented and interwove idioms of diverse cultural origins, including those from the Near East, to express Greek, Roman and Syrian identifications in innovative and complex ways. While exploring a vast array of written and material sources, the book thus posits that Greekness and Syrianness were constantly shifting and transforming categories, and it critiques many assumptions that govern how scholars of antiquity often conceive of Roman imperial Greek identity, ethnicity and culture in the Roman Near East, and processes of 'hybridity' or similar concepts.

Author : Miriam Tamara Griffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : 0198299907

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Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World by Miriam Tamara Griffin Pdf

Miriam Griffin is unrivalled as a bridge-builder between historians of the Graeco-Roman world and students of its philosophies. This volume in her honour brings togetherseventeen international specialists. Their essays range from Socrates to late antiquity, extending to Diogenes, Cicero, Plinythe Elder, Marcus Aurelius, the Second Sophistic, Ulpian, Augustine, the Neoplatonist tradition, women philosophers, provision for basic human needs, the development of law, the formulation of imperial power, and the interpretation of Judaism and early Christianity. Emperors and drop-outs, mediastars and administrators, top politicians and abstruse professionals, even ordinary citizens in their epitaphs, were variously called philosophers. Philosophy could offer those in power moral support or confrontation, a language for making choices or an intellectual diversion, but they mightdisregard philosophy and get on with the exercise of power. 'Philosophy' means 'love of wisdom', but what was the power of philosophy?