Book contents
- Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos
- Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos
- 1 Community, Identity, and Memory in Roman Ephesos
- 2 The Vedii: A Family’s History in Ephesos
- 3 “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” The Vedii and the Goddess of Ephesos
- 4 Fun and Games in Roman Ephesos: The Vedii, the Agonistic Festivals, and the Imperial Cult
- 5 The Vedii and the Associations of Ephesos
- 6 The Vedii and Their Civic Buildings in Ephesos
- Conclusions The Vedii: A Family’s Place in the Community and in the Commemorative Landscape of Ephesos
- Appendix Who’s Who among the Ephesian Vedii and Flavii Vedii
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index of Inscriptions
4 - Fun and Games in Roman Ephesos: The Vedii, the Agonistic Festivals, and the Imperial Cult
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2021
- Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos
- Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos
- 1 Community, Identity, and Memory in Roman Ephesos
- 2 The Vedii: A Family’s History in Ephesos
- 3 “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” The Vedii and the Goddess of Ephesos
- 4 Fun and Games in Roman Ephesos: The Vedii, the Agonistic Festivals, and the Imperial Cult
- 5 The Vedii and the Associations of Ephesos
- 6 The Vedii and Their Civic Buildings in Ephesos
- Conclusions The Vedii: A Family’s Place in the Community and in the Commemorative Landscape of Ephesos
- Appendix Who’s Who among the Ephesian Vedii and Flavii Vedii
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index of Inscriptions
Summary
Over generations members of the Vedii family served as magistrates (panegyriarchs, agonothetes, etc.) of important local agonistic festivals, and as high priests and priestesses of the imperial cult temples of Ephesos. In these capacities they organized different aspects of festivals, paid for prizes and associated festivities, and were in the public gaze for the period of their tenure. Regarding the imperial cult, inscriptions and other evidence may point to their ownership of a ludus, or gladiatorial training school, in the Ephesos as late as the mid-third century. This chapter argues that the holding of festival magistracies was another very significant euergetic opportunity for members of city elites, like the Vedii.
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- Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos , pp. 173 - 232Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021