Böcker av Arjan (Universiteit Gent Zuiderhoek

This book provides an accessible survey of scholarly debates on Greek and Roman cities, as well as a sketch of the cities' chief characteristics. It is aimed primarily at students of ancient history and general readers, but also at scholars working on urbanism in other periods and places.

In the first two centuries AD, the eastern Roman provinces experienced a proliferation of elite public generosity (gifts of buildings, festivals, distributions in exchange for public honours) unmatched in their previous or later history. This is a study of the motivations behind those public benefactions.