Epigraphische Forschungen zur Geschichte Lykiens XI: Gymnasiarchinnen und Gymnasiarchen in Limyra

Abstract

Publication of six monuments (partly posthumous) from Limyra/Lycia in honour of elite citizens, male and female, of the 1^st and 2^nd centuries AD. The assumption of the gymnasiarchy is common to all the honorands and gives rise to a new study of the function, organization and administration of the gymnasion and the balaneion in Limyra. The local community of resident Romans (κατοικοῦωτες Ῥωμαῖοι), first attested in Lycia, participated in the earliest monument and thus completes the picture of the anti-Roman stasis under Claudius, while also providing some social background to the cenotaph for Gaius Caesar, who died in Limyra in AD 4.