After the Past: Essays in Ancient History in Honour of H.W. Pleket

by: Jongman, W. Kleijwegt, M.

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After the Past
Essays in Ancient History in Honour of H.W. Pleket
Series:
Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 233
Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity
Editors: Willem Jongman and Marc Kleijwegt
What was funny about ancient jokes, and why? Why did the Roman state legislate to curb the behaviour of its obscenely rich and powerful elite, if it never really expected such laws to be obeyed? Why did it oppress the poor, and lavish public child support on them?
These are important questions, but ancient Greeks and Romans could never have thought of them. They never questioned the right of the rich to be rich. They could not improve their understanding of Homeric gift-giving with the experience of ritualized friendship among the Trobriand islanders. Such questions and such answers can only come from those who live after the ancient past.
This volume honours the well-known Dutch epigraphist and ancient historian H.W. Pleket. Ten substantial essays reflect his wide range, from early Greece to the Roman Empire, and his taste for comparative economic and social history.

Preface vii
H.W. Pleket, epigraphist and comparative historian
ix
Willem Jongman
Marc Kleijwegt
Restraining the rich, protecting the poor. Symbolic aspects of Roman legislation
1 (46)
Luuk de Ligt
Beneficial symbols. Alimenta and the infantilization of the Roman citizen
47 (34)
Willem Jongman
Textile manufacturing for a religious market. Artemis and Diana as tycoons of industry
81 (54)
Marc Kleijwegt
Wrecks in the Mediterranean as evidence of economic activity in the Roman empire
135 (22)
Fik Meijer
The decapolis: city territories, villages and bouleutai
157 (52)
Steven Moors
Ancient humour
209 (26)
Paul Schulten
The Spartan army at Mantinea and its organisation in the fifth century BC
235 (50)
Henk Singor
Hermopolis in the crisis of the Roman empire
285 (20)
Peter van Minnen
Collegia and civic guards. Two chapters in the history of sociability
305 (36)
Onno van Nijf
Greed, generosity and gift-exchange in early Greece and the western Pacific
341
Hans van Wees

Subjects:
Antike
Civilisation ancienne
Civilization, Classical
Greece
Greece History To 146 B.C
Grèce Histoire Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C
Griechenland
History
Klassieke oudheid
Pleket, H. W
Pleket, Harry W
Rome (Empire)
Rome Histoire
Rome History
Römisches Reich
To 146 B.C

After the Past: Essays in Ancient History in Honour of H.W. Pleket

by: Jongman, W. Kleijwegt, M.

• ISBN-13: 9789004128163 / 978-90-04-12816-3
• ISBN-03: 9004128166 / 90-04-12816-6
• E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2002

Price: 119,00 EURO

1 copy in stock