The high value placed upon status and the widespread love of honour, φιλοτιμία, was such that it became important to display one’s status in an ostentatious manner. The privileges attached to certain social grades were rigorously pursued and paraded. Both Dio Chrysostom and Plutarch are at times caustic in their criticism of the extents to which people will go in order to advertise their social status, either real or preferred. Plutarch writes: So of all kinds of love that which is engendered in