Las bibliotecas del Oriente romano como Heroa. Evergetismo cultural y propaganda familiar = Eastern Roman Libraries as Heroa. Cultural evergetism and family propaganda

Resumo

The phenomenon of evergetism in Roman East presents a series of particularities linked to the socio-cultural idiosyncrasies inherited from Hellenism, wich rarely find similarities in the Western provinces. One of these specificities lies in the adoption of the Imperial Rome practice of founding public libraries, but with the both functionality intellectual and funeral. These monuments glorified the dead’s memory giving him an heroic status, while stated the privileged status of dedicants and reinforced their adherence to civic elite. This study deals with some aspects related to the few archaeological examples known, eminently the libraries from Ephesus and Nysa, as well as its comparison with other similar institutions from Greece and Asia Minor.