Bread And Circuses by Paul Veyne
Historical Sociology and Political Pluralism
An analysis of the Greco-Roman institution of euergetism—the elite practice of financing games, distributions, and public buildings—arguing that such largesse functioned less as charity than as a system of reciprocity and symbolic power that organized civic life, maintained hierarchy, and secured consent; by tracing how public generosity and spectacle mediated relations between rulers, notables, and citizens, it reframes ancient urban politics as status competition and political communication rather than welfare.
- Published
- 1976
- Nationality
- French
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- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
- - Le pain et le cirque
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