Marc Domingo Gygax
Biographic Data
| ID | 5627965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Domingo Gygax |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc Domingo |
| FAMILY NAME | Gygax |
| SIGNATURE | GYGAX M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Benefactors and the Polis: The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity
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 the Greek cities from Homeric times until Late Antiquity, highlighting this as a structural feature of polis society from its origins in the early Arch…
Classical Athens and the Invention of Civic Euergetism
Athens represents a special case in the history of Greek public benefactions. It is probably the polis that most resisted the emergence of civic euergetism, that is, the establishment of an organized exchange of benefactions for honors between polis and citizens. At the same time, no other classical polis contributed so much to the development of the practice and to its transformation into a defining institution of the Hellenistic age. This chapt…
Defining Boundaries in the Treaty of Apamea. A Note on a New Edition of Livy’s Fourth Decade
This contribution deals with Livy’s account of the peace treaty of Apamea between Rome and Antiochus III (189/188 BC), and in particular with Liv. 37,56,1–6, which treats the division of the Seleucid dominions in Asia Minor between Eumenes II and the Rhodians. With attention to Yardley’s new Loeb edition and translation of Livy’s fourth decade, it discusses grammatical problems and questions of textual transmission, translation, and historical an…
Euergetism and the embedded economy of the Greek polis
This chapter explores the economic impact of euergetism on the Greek polis by paying attention not only to the phenomenon of donations to the community by wealthy individuals, but also to public rewards for benefactions generally. Although the latter practice involved noneconomic benefactions, consideration of it allows for a better understanding of how donations arose. The main theories regarding euergetism and their evolution in recent decades …
Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism
Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism
This volume presents for the first time an in-depth analysis of the origins of Greek euergetism. Derived from the Greek for 'benefactor', 'euergetism' refers to the process whereby citizens and foreigners offered voluntary services and donations to the polis that were in turn recognised as benefactions in a formal act of reciprocation. Euergetism is key to our understanding of how city-states negotiated both the internal tensions between mass and…
Lycia
The ancient region of Lycia comprises the entire modern Teke peninsula on the southern coast of Asia Minor, bordering Caria in the west and Pamphylia in the east. To the north, the westernmost ranges of the Taurus mountains shield Lycia from Phrygia and Pisidia. The political and cultural borders vary through history. This is especially true in the west, where Telmessos is the last place with traces of the indigenous Lycian language and Krya the …
Dossier: Avez-vous vu les Érinyes ?
Dossier : Autour des Érinyes. Représentations psychiques, discursives et figurées. Cette réflexion sur la représentation pose le cas limite de ces puissances divines que l’on ne saurait ni voir ni représenter, tant elles sont effrayantes. L'étude du passage des « images » aux « images mentales » met en exergue la façon dont les Grecs ont réussi à rendre visible l’invisible, figurer l’infigurable, représenter l’irreprésentable.Les articles rassemb…
Contradictions et asymétrie dans l'évergétisme grec: Bienfaiteurs étrangers et citoyens entre image et réalité
Marc Domingo Gygax, Contradictions and asymmetry in Greek evergetism: foreign benefactors and citizens between image and reality, DHA 32/1, 2006, 9-23. Abstract: Greek cities often honored as benefactors (euergetai) foreigners who had not performed any benefactions or whose benefactions were not worthy of their rewards. In the relationship between cities and their own citizens, however, this practice was exceptional. Rather, we find the opposite …
Plutarch on Alcibiades' Return to Athens
A passage of Plutarch's biography of Alcibiades (Alc. 33.2) invites us to explore the way Athens rewarded its benefactors in the fifth and fourth century, especially the first awards of crowns to citizens. This article challenges the widespread assumption that Alcibiades' crowning with gold when he came back to Athens from his exile is an invention by Plutarch or a previous source. First, there is evidence that the crowning was known to other anc…
He who of all mankind set up the most numerous trophies to Zeus’ The Inscribed Pillar of Xanthos reconsidered
The Inscribed Pillar of Xanthos remains one of the most enigmatic monuments of ancient Lycia. This article addresses the problem of the monument's authorship, but tries also to shed some light on the relative chronology of its inscriptions (a Greek epigram, a long inscription in Lycian A and a short Lycian B inscription), the relationship between the decorative sculptures of the monument and the content of the inscriptions, the political intentio…
Dossier: Alexandre le Grand, religion et tradition
Dossier : Le premier numéro de cette nouvelle série propose sept contributions consacrées à Alexandre le Grand, religion et tradition. Le dossier fournit un aperçu des tendances actuelles de l'historiographie sur Alexandre et sa légende. La réflexion sur le comportement religieux et le mythe d'Alexandre met en jeu un modèle et un miroir du pouvoir royal aux multiples facettes. Varia : Le volume comporte également un ensemble d'articles de varia q…
Plutarch on Alcibiades' Return to Athens
A passage of Plutarch's biography of Alcibiades (Alc. 33.2) invites us to explore the way Athens rewarded its benefactors in the fifth and fourth century, especially the first awards of crowns to citizens. This article challenges the widespread assumption that Alcibiades' crowning with gold when he came back to Athens from his exile is an invention by Plutarch or a previous source. First, there is evidence that the crowning was known to other anc…
Contradictions et asymétrie dans l'évergétisme grec: Bienfaiteurs étrangers et citoyens entre image et réalité
Marc Domingo Gygax, Contradictions and asymmetry in Greek evergetism: foreign benefactors and citizens between image and reality, DHA 32/1, 2006, 9-23. Abstract: Greek cities often honored as benefactors (euergetai) foreigners who had not performed any benefactions or whose benefactions were not worthy of their rewards. In the relationship between cities and their own citizens, however, this practice was exceptional. Rather, we find the opposite …
He who of all mankind set up the most numerous trophies to Zeus’ The Inscribed Pillar of Xanthos reconsidered
The Inscribed Pillar of Xanthos remains one of the most enigmatic monuments of ancient Lycia. This article addresses the problem of the monument's authorship, but tries also to shed some light on the relative chronology of its inscriptions (a Greek epigram, a long inscription in Lycian A and a short Lycian B inscription), the relationship between the decorative sculptures of the monument and the content of the inscriptions, the political intentio…
Dossier: Alexandre le Grand, religion et tradition
Dossier : Le premier numéro de cette nouvelle série propose sept contributions consacrées à Alexandre le Grand, religion et tradition. Le dossier fournit un aperçu des tendances actuelles de l'historiographie sur Alexandre et sa légende. La réflexion sur le comportement religieux et le mythe d'Alexandre met en jeu un modèle et un miroir du pouvoir royal aux multiples facettes. Varia : Le volume comporte également un ensemble d'articles de varia q…
He who of all mankind set up the most numerous trophies to Zeus’ The Inscribed Pillar of Xanthos reconsidered
The Inscribed Pillar of Xanthos remains one of the most enigmatic monuments of ancient Lycia. This article addresses the problem of the monument's authorship, but tries also to shed some light on the relative chronology of its inscriptions (a Greek epigram, a long inscription in Lycian A and a short Lycian B inscription), the relationship between the decorative sculptures of the monument and the content of the inscriptions, the political intentio…
Dossier: Avez-vous vu les Érinyes ?
Dossier : Autour des Érinyes. Représentations psychiques, discursives et figurées. Cette réflexion sur la représentation pose le cas limite de ces puissances divines que l’on ne saurait ni voir ni représenter, tant elles sont effrayantes. L'étude du passage des « images » aux « images mentales » met en exergue la façon dont les Grecs ont réussi à rendre visible l’invisible, figurer l’infigurable, représenter l’irreprésentable.Les articles rassemb…
Contradictions et asymétrie dans l'évergétisme grec: Bienfaiteurs étrangers et citoyens entre image et réalité
Marc Domingo Gygax, Contradictions and asymmetry in Greek evergetism: foreign benefactors and citizens between image and reality, DHA 32/1, 2006, 9-23. Abstract: Greek cities often honored as benefactors (euergetai) foreigners who had not performed any benefactions or whose benefactions were not worthy of their rewards. In the relationship between cities and their own citizens, however, this practice was exceptional. Rather, we find the opposite …
Plutarch on Alcibiades' Return to Athens
A passage of Plutarch's biography of Alcibiades (Alc. 33.2) invites us to explore the way Athens rewarded its benefactors in the fifth and fourth century, especially the first awards of crowns to citizens. This article challenges the widespread assumption that Alcibiades' crowning with gold when he came back to Athens from his exile is an invention by Plutarch or a previous source. First, there is evidence that the crowning was known to other anc…
Lycia
The ancient region of Lycia comprises the entire modern Teke peninsula on the southern coast of Asia Minor, bordering Caria in the west and Pamphylia in the east. To the north, the westernmost ranges of the Taurus mountains shield Lycia from Phrygia and Pisidia. The political and cultural borders vary through history. This is especially true in the west, where Telmessos is the last place with traces of the indigenous Lycian language and Krya the …
Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism
Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism
This volume presents for the first time an in-depth analysis of the origins of Greek euergetism. Derived from the Greek for 'benefactor', 'euergetism' refers to the process whereby citizens and foreigners offered voluntary services and donations to the polis that were in turn recognised as benefactions in a formal act of reciprocation. Euergetism is key to our understanding of how city-states negotiated both the internal tensions between mass and…
Euergetism and the embedded economy of the Greek polis
This chapter explores the economic impact of euergetism on the Greek polis by paying attention not only to the phenomenon of donations to the community by wealthy individuals, but also to public rewards for benefactions generally. Although the latter practice involved noneconomic benefactions, consideration of it allows for a better understanding of how donations arose. The main theories regarding euergetism and their evolution in recent decades …
Defining Boundaries in the Treaty of Apamea. A Note on a New Edition of Livy’s Fourth Decade
This contribution deals with Livy’s account of the peace treaty of Apamea between Rome and Antiochus III (189/188 BC), and in particular with Liv. 37,56,1–6, which treats the division of the Seleucid dominions in Asia Minor between Eumenes II and the Rhodians. With attention to Yardley’s new Loeb edition and translation of Livy’s fourth decade, it discusses grammatical problems and questions of textual transmission, translation, and historical an…
Benefactors and the Polis: The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity
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 the Greek cities from Homeric times until Late Antiquity, highlighting this as a structural feature of polis society from its origins in the early Arch…
Classical Athens and the Invention of Civic Euergetism
Athens represents a special case in the history of Greek public benefactions. It is probably the polis that most resisted the emergence of civic euergetism, that is, the establishment of an organized exchange of benefactions for honors between polis and citizens. At the same time, no other classical polis contributed so much to the development of the practice and to its transformation into a defining institution of the Hellenistic age. This chapt…
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