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1 - Introducing euergetism: questions, definitions and data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2009

Arjan Zuiderhoek
Affiliation:
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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The council (boule) and the people (demos) of Aphrodisias and the council of elders (gerousia) have set up in the midst of his public works this statue of Marcus Ulpius Carminius Claudianus, son of Carminius Claudianus high priest of (the League of) Asia who was grandfather and great-grandfather of (Roman) senators; honoured on many occasions by the emperors, he was husband of Flavia Apphia high priestess of Asia, mother and sister and grandmother of senators, devoted to her native city, (worthy) daughter of the city and of Flavius Athenagoras, imperial procurator who was father, grandfather and great-grandfather of senators; he himself was the son of a high priest of Asia, father of the senator Carminius Athenagoras, grandfather of the senators Carminii Athenagoras, Claudianus, Apphia and Liviana, treasurer of Asia, appointed curator of the city of Kyzikos as successor to consulars, high priest, treasurer, chief superintendent of temple fabric, and lifelong priest of the goddess Aphrodite, for whom he established an endowment to provide the priestly crown and votive offerings in perpetuity; for the city he established an endowment of 105,000 denarii to provide public works in perpetuity, out of which 10,000 denarii were paid for the seats of the theatre, and the reconstruction of this street on both sides from its beginning to its end, from its foundations to its wall coping, has felicitously been begun and will continue; in the gymnasium of Diogenes he built the anointing room with his personal funds and, together with his wife Apphia, he walled round the great hall and entrances and exits;[…]

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The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire
Citizens, Elites and Benefactors in Asia Minor
, pp. 3 - 22
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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