Social Status and Prestige in the Graeco-Roman World

✍ Scribed by Annika Kuhn

• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 344
• Series: Altertumswissenschaften
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Social status and the prestige associated with it played a crucial role in Graeco-Roman society, constituting the basis for social stratification and shaping a complex web of social, political, economic and cultural relations. The sixteen papers assembled in this volume take a fresh look at the study of social status and prestige in antiquity and discuss a variety of key aspects and issues of the topic, including the formation and legal definition of status categories and hierarchies, the dynamic interrelationship between status and prestige, manifestations of status dissonance and social nonconformity, the role of prestige as a resource of political power, and the representation and display of status through the media of honorific inscriptions, funerary monuments, status symbols and prestige goods. The volume covers a broad geographical and chronological scope which stretches from Roman Italy to the Greek East over the period from the early principate to late antiquity.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
PREFACE
THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL STATUS AND PRESTIGE IN PLINY, JUVENAL AND MARTIAL
STATUS DISSONANCE AND STATUS DISSIDENTS IN THE EQUESTRIAN ORDER
DIE GENESE DER RANGTITEL IN DEN ERSTEN DREI JAHRHUNDERTEN
TITRES OFFICIELS, TITRES OFFICIEUX
STATUS AND SOCIAL HIERARCHIES: THE CASE OF POMPEII
THE ALBUM OF HERCULANEUM: PROBLEMS OF STATUS AND IDENTITY
FISCHTEICHE UND FISCHESSER: AUFSTIEG UND NIEDERGANG EINES LUXUSGUTS
GRABMONUMENTE IN ROM UND IM RHEINLAND: REFLEX VON SOZIALEM STATUS UND PRESTIGE?
DIE DARSTELLUNG DES KAISERLICHEN STATUS UND SEINES PRESTIGES
PRESTIGE UND STATUSSYMBOLIK ALS MACHTPOLITISCHE RESSOURCEN IM PRINZIPAT DES CLAUDIUS
CIVIC MIRRORS: HONORIFIC INSCRIPTIONS AND THE POLITICS OF PRESTIGE
MEMBERSHIP OF THE BOULĒIN THE INSCRIPTIONS OF ASIA MINOR: A MARK OF ELEVATED SOCIAL STATUS?
INSCRIBING SENATORIAL STATUS AND IDENTITY, A.D. 200–350
STATUS AND RANK IN THE THEODOSIAN CODE
SERVUS DEI UND VERWANDTE FORMULIERUNGEN IN LATEINISCHEN INSCHRIFTEN
BESCHEIDENHEIT IST EINE ZIER
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS