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Nijf, Onno M. van The Civic World of Profesional Associations in the Roman East 1997 This study examines the mentalité of craftsmen and traders in the Greek cities of the Roman empire through the epigraphic evidence for their membership of private associations based on shared profession. It places these associations firmly in the context of the civic world of the cities in which they were active. The author argues that such inscriptions are not straightforward and unproblematic records of reality, but rather were important elements in the strategies of self-definition practised by these associations. Epigraphic commemoration was used to transform private activities into public events; epitaphs and honorific inscriptions spoke a public language which aimed to present the associations of craftsmen and traders as status groups alongside other, well-established groups. The author investigates how successful the members of professional associations were in this form of epigraphic self-fashioning, through a discussion of their role in public ceremonial. The associations were present in public banquets and distributions, they took part in public processions, and they had reserved seats in theatres and stadia of the cities. Professional associations can thus be seen as taking their place in the hierarchy of status groups which made up the Greek city under Roman rule. This book makes an important contribution to the study of private sociability in the ancient world; it sheds new light on the nature of civic life in the Greek cities of the Roman empire; and it proposes a new approach to reading epigraphy
Intro -- THE CIVIC WORLD OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS IN THE ROMAN EAST -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Faces in a crowd -- Private associations -- Collegia in a comparative perspective -- Epigraphy and history -- 1: Funerary activities of professional associations in the Roman East -- Introduction -- The funerary activities of collegia -- Conclusions -- 2: The honorific practices of private associations -- Introduction -- With a little help from their friends: the material benefits of patronage -- Fashioning authority and identity: the symbolic meanings of honorific practices -- Conclusions -- 3: Reading Ancient Festivals -- Introduction -- Private clubs and public festivals -- Economic time and festive time -- 4: Collegia and public commensality -- Introduction -- Collegia in public banquets and distributions in the Roman East -- Conclusions -- 5: Professions on parade -- Introduction -- The participation of private associations in civic processions -- Private associations and imperial ceremonies -- Conclusions -- 6: Seats and civic memory -- Introduction -- Collegia and seating orders in the provinces -- Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: I. Histria 57 -- Appendix 2: Collegia in Public Commensality in the West -- Appendix 3: Collegia in Public Commensality in the East -- Appendix 4: Seats for collegia in the Roman Empire -- Appendix 5: Roman auditoria -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Epigraphical index -- Papyrological index -- Literary and biblical index -- Legal index -- General Index.
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