Arjan Zuiderhoek is Full Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University, Belgium. His publications include The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire: Citizens, Elites and Benefactors in Asia Minor (2009), The Ancient City (2017) and Benefactors and the Polis: The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity (2021, co-edited with M. Domingo Gygax).