Everyone knows about “euergetism” — the practice of public giving by rich individuals to the polis, which responded with forms of reciprocity. That, at least, is the model undergirding the volume under review. The 12 papers (grouped chronologically in sections devoted to the archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman imperial, and late antique periods) originated in a 2015 conference convened by Marc Domingo Gygax and Arjan Zuiderhoek, themselves authors of important articles and monographs on euergetism. The editors also contribute the introduction and, especially, the final essay which ranges thematically over all the papers, to offer analytical vistas across periods but also to look for contextual specificities. The final result is a useful and thoughtful survey of the state of the question, which also aims at pushing enquiry in new directions. But is the model the right one?