List of tables and graphs -- Some representative texts -- Introduction -- Civic patronage in the late Republic -- Civic patronage and Augustus -- Civic patronage in the Principate -- Civic patronage in the Verrines -- Civic patronage in Roman law -- Civic patronage in the epigraphical record -- Patronage and the patrons of Canusium : a case study -- Reflections on the evolution of civic patronage
Summary
The Roman Empire of the Principate may be understood as a consortium of communities bound together by ties that were institutional and personal. Civic patrons played a central role in that process by which subjects became citizens
