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Mētropoleis
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AbstractThe Greek termmētropolis, literally “mother city,” was first used to express the relationship between a founding city and its colony during the Greek colonization of the western Mediterranean in the eighth centurybce. Under the Roman Empire it came to be a title granted to cities by the emperor. It could be purely honorific or it could imply privileges such as remission of taxes, the promotion of athletic and cultural competition, or a dominant role within the organization of the imperial cult on the provincial level.
Title: Mētropoleis
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AbstractThe Greek termmētropolis, literally “mother city,” was first used to express the relationship between a founding city and its colony during the Greek colonization of the western Mediterranean in the eighth centurybce.
Under the Roman Empire it came to be a title granted to cities by the emperor.
It could be purely honorific or it could imply privileges such as remission of taxes, the promotion of athletic and cultural competition, or a dominant role within the organization of the imperial cult on the provincial level.
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