Agora Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 13 (1970)
Title:   Marcus Aurelius: Aspects of Civic and Cultural Policy in the East
Author:   Oliver, J. H.
Abstract:   An important inscription, found in the Roman market place in Athens, is here published for the first time. Although fragmentary, it preserves the text of a formal letter from Marcus Aurelius directed to the Athenians in the year A.D. 174/5. The Roman emperor’s decisions in cases concerning office holding, membership of the council, and the appointment of the Athenian members of the Panhellenion (the council of cities established by Hadrian) are recorded. Elicited by a complaint to the emperor from prominent citizens, the letter also sheds light on the brutal political quarrels that swirled around the Athenian administrator, Herodes Atticus, builder of some of Athens’s best-known monuments.
Series Title:   Hesperia Supplement
Publication Place:   Princeton
Publisher:   American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Volume:   13
Date:   1970
ISBN:   978-0-87661-513-3
Jstor:   http://www.jstor.org/stable/1353921
Google:   http://books.google.com/books?id=aFtVgQQi38wC
DOI:   10.2307_1353921
    10.2307_1353922
Oxbow URL:   http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/28239
References:   Publication Pages (185)
Object: I 4083
Object: I 4457