Book contents
- The Lives of Ancient Villages
- Greek Culture in the Roman World
- The Lives of Ancient Villages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- 1 Hieradoumia
- 2 Commemorative Cultures
- 3 Demography
- 4 Kinship Terminology
- 5 Household Forms
- 6 The Circulation of Children
- 7 Beyond the Family
- 8 Rural Sanctuaries
- 9 Village Society
- 10 City, Village, Kin-Group
- References
- Index
7 - Beyond the Family
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2022
- The Lives of Ancient Villages
- Greek Culture in the Roman World
- The Lives of Ancient Villages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- 1 Hieradoumia
- 2 Commemorative Cultures
- 3 Demography
- 4 Kinship Terminology
- 5 Household Forms
- 6 The Circulation of Children
- 7 Beyond the Family
- 8 Rural Sanctuaries
- 9 Village Society
- 10 City, Village, Kin-Group
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter addresses those social ties beyond the kin-group which seem – to judge from commemorative practices – to have been of most importance for the inhabitants of Roman Hieradoumia. Fellow members of small-scale local cult-associations (phratrai, symbiōseis, speirai, doumoi) are very prominent in funerary commemoration, as are religious officials, neighbours, friends, and (for unfree persons) groups of fellow slaves. At Saittai, men are often commemorated by trade guilds and professional associations, probably reflecting the existence of guild-based burial-clubs; there is some reason to think that these trade guilds were unusually prominent in the civic organization of the polis of Saittai. Finally, civic communities fairly often participate in the commemoration of deceased members of the civic elite; such men and women’s tombstones can include lengthy extracts from post mortem honorific decrees which systematically conflate the deceased’s public and private virtues.
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- The Lives of Ancient VillagesRural Society in Roman Anatolia, pp. 216 - 240Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022