Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods最新文献

{"title":"The Topography of Honours","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004502499_008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004502499_008","url":null,"abstract":"Delphi differed from other Panhellenic sanctuaries, since, unlike Olympia, Nemea and Isthmia, it lay in direct contact with a permanent settlement which possessed its own political institutions. The temenos of Delphi served as a public space in which the religious and festive sphere merged and mingled with the political realm and the city’s daily life.1 The location of the bouleuterion and prytaneion within the peribolos implies that many aspects of Delphic civic life took place there,2 while stoai (being commonly situated in other Greek cities within the agora) served as commercial spaces, law courts, philosophy schools and magisterial offices.3 As a result, the Delphic temenos was a politically charged space within which citizens and guests could establish and foster both civic and international relationships. Such relationships directly reflect the connection between power and space, which is my main point of interest in this chapter. The last decades have seen considerable interest in understanding how Greek public spaces and societies interact with, shape and influence one another.4 O.M. van Nijf and a group of his former students have re-interpreted Greek public spaces by focusing on their architectural developments, the civic identity that was expressed through the built environment, and social interactions that took place on public soil in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.5 They draw on the so-called ‘spatial turn’ in order to demonstrate how public space is important not only for understanding buildings but also for understanding people. Space and society co-existed with each other, each shaping and in turn being shaped by the other. To fully understand human society, it is thus necessary to think about the relationship","PeriodicalId":136403,"journal":{"name":"Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128713024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Epilogue: Post-classical Delphi","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004502499_009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004502499_009","url":null,"abstract":"There is a tendency for the archaic and classical periods to be seen as the culmination of Delphic (and Greek) history, which is an outcome of the fact that these periods coincide with the most studied heyday of Greece history and literature. Although the short-sightedness of such approaches has been repeatedly criticised, it remains difficult to shed biases which prioritise Athenianand classical-era-centredness, a difficulty which is felt most acutely when one admits that classical Athens produced a treasure trove of historical evidence, against which we necessarily juxtapose every other polis from every other period of antiquity. In contrast to poleis which peaked in the classical era, the evidence concerning Delphi shows how the city continued to develop after the classical age and reached new heights in the Hellenistic and Roman eras; when Pausanias visited Delphi in the second century CE, it remained an important religious and cultural hub. In this volume it has been my intention, incomplete as it may be, to shed new light on Hellenistic and Roman Delphi, and, by making extensive use of hitherto unanalysed evidence, examine the dataset of Delphic honorific culture as an eye-opening case-study, offering new research avenues for scholars interested in Greek gift-giving systems, euergetism, and generally the Greek epigraphic tradition. The development and character of the Delphic honorific culture sprang from the unique opportunities offered by Delphi’s renowned oracular sanctuary and the fame and importance it conferred upon the city. A bustling and urbane polis, Delphi in the Hellenistic period attracted thousands of visitors from all over the Mediterranean, including pilgrims, athletes, theoroi, artists, ‘men of letters’ and tourists; this large and multiregional audience made Delphi a perfect location for those looking to display their generosity and wealth to the masses. Benefactions to the Delphic polis were rewarded with various honours: gifts, privileges, exemptions, celebratory inscriptions and material accolades, such as statues and portraits. Different factors vividly distinguish Delphic honorific culture among its counterparts. For example, there is (1) the sheer number and heterogeneity of recipients of Delphic gifts. Chapter 4 of this monograph discussed the analysed material sample – over 950 epigraphically recorded honorands, with a wide geographical and chronological scope, their hometown locations spanning from Massalia (modern Marseille) to Pantikapaion on the eastern shore of Kimmeria, and whose decree dates ranged from the early fourth century BCE up to the late fourth century CE. The second highly characteristic feature of the Delphic epigraphic habit is (2) the wealth and","PeriodicalId":136403,"journal":{"name":"Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124887625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}