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
10 - City, Village, Kin-Group
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
Several small towns in Hieradoumia received polis-status between the Augustan and Flavian periods. None of these communities seem to have had an especially dense or elaborate urban fabric, and all had a relatively limited roster of civic magistrates. There is little sign that the local civic elite was strongly distinct either in wealth or cultural horizons from the ordinary rural population, and Roman citizenship was not widespread before the constitutio Antoniniana; the largest private landholdings in the region seem to have been in the hands of wealthy non-resident landowners from Sardis, Philadelphia, or further afield. The polis remained a marginal phenomenon in Roman Hieradoumia, where the chief focus of communal life was instead the self-governing village. Villages overlapped strongly with cult-associations, and in a few cases, we have good evidence for segmentary organization of villages by kin-groups. The chapter concludes with a defence of the conception of Roman Hieradoumia as a fundamentally kin-ordered society.
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- The Lives of Ancient VillagesRural Society in Roman Anatolia, pp. 319 - 356Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022