Roman Patrons of Greek Cities

ISBN: 9780199248483 出版年：2010 页码：348 Eilers, Claude Oxford University Press

Patronage has been an important topic of interest to ancient historians, but it remains unclear what patronage entailed and how it worked. An examination of inscriptions from the Greek East, however, implies that the practice whereby Romans became patrons of Greek cities was not only a part of Rome's history, but had a history of its own. Its rise and fall in the Greek East is linked to the last period of the Republic and the transition to the Principate.