Benefactors and the polis : the public gift in the Greek cities from the Homeric world to late antiquity / edited by Marc Domingo Gygax, Princeton University, Arjan Zuiderhoek, Ghent University.

"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...

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