Asylia
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Asylia

Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World

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Asylia

Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World

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In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable." Asylia was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon—mainly inscriptions and coins—is scattered in the published record. The material has never been collected and presented in one publication until now. Kent J. Rigsby lays out these documents and discusses their historical implications in a substantial introduction. He argues that while a hopeful intention of military neutrality lay behind the institution of asylum, the declarations did not in fact change military behavior. Instead, "declared inviolability" became a civic and religious honor for which cities across the Greek world competed during the third to first centuries B.C.
In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable." Asylia was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidenc

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520200982
eBook ISBN
9780520916371
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS 1
  5. LIST OF PLATES
  6. PREFACE
  7. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  8. Introduction
  9. The Documents
  10. Before Hellenism
  11. Elis
  12. Delphi
  13. Plataea
  14. Delos
  15. Greece: Boeotia
  16. Temple of Athena Itonia, Coroneia
  17. Temple of Apollo Ptoius, Acraephia
  18. Temple of Dionysus Cadmeius, Thebes
  19. Unidentified Boeotian Temple
  20. Temple of Amphiaraus, Oropus
  21. Temples of Zeus Basileus and of Trophonius, Lebadeia
  22. Temple of Apollo Delius, Tanagra
  23. Alalcomenae
  24. Greece: Doubtful Cases
  25. Athens
  26. Dodona
  27. Epidaurus
  28. Calaureia
  29. Temple of Artemis, Lusi
  30. Temple of Poseidon, Taenarum
  31. Hermione
  32. Nicopolis
  33. Smyrna and the Temple of Aphrodite Stratonicis
  34. Temple of Asclepius, Cos
  35. Tenos
  36. Chalcedon
  37. Miletus
  38. Magnesia on the Maeander
  39. Teos
  40. Alabanda
  41. Temple of Artemis, Amyzon
  42. Xanthus
  43. Cyzicus
  44. Temple of Apollo of Claros, Colophon
  45. Unidentified City (Bargylia?)
  46. Temple of Apollo, Anaphe
  47. Pergamum
  48. Temple of Artemis, Ephesus
  49. Temple of Hera, Samos
  50. Samothrace
  51. Temple of Pluto and Kore, Nysa
  52. Mylasa
  53. Tralles
  54. Temple of Aphrodite, Aphrodisias
  55. Sardes
  56. Temple of the Persian Goddess, Hieracome-Hierocaesarea
  57. Nicomedia
  58. Nicaea
  59. Aezani
  60. Perge
  61. Side
  62. Sillyum
  63. Hyde
  64. Tyana
  65. Comana in Pontus
  66. Cilicia
  67. Aegeae
  68. Hierapolis-Castabala
  69. Elaeusa-Sebaste
  70. Mopsuestia
  71. Soli-Pompeiopolis
  72. Rhosus
  73. Epiphaneia
  74. Tarsus
  75. Seleuceia on the Calycadnus
  76. Selinus-Traj anopolis
  77. Mallus
  78. Olba
  79. Phoenicia and Syria Tyre
  80. Seleuceia in Pieria
  81. Ptolemais
  82. Sidon
  83. Beirut
  84. Tripolis
  85. Antioch
  86. Larisa
  87. Laodicea ad Mare
  88. Apamea
  89. Temple of Zeus, Baetocaece
  90. Damascus
  91. Dora
  92. Samosata
  93. Nicopolis ad Issum
  94. Dura-Europus
  95. Byblos
  96. Palestine Ascalon
  97. Gaza
  98. Sepphoris-Diocaesarea
  99. Caesarea-Panias
  100. Joppa
  101. Raphia
  102. Jerusalem
  103. The Decapolis
  104. Gadara
  105. Abila
  106. Capitolias
  107. Antioch by Hippus
  108. Nysa-Scythopolis
  109. Gerasa
  110. Egypt
  111. The Sarapeum at Memphis
  112. Temple of Osiris at Busiris
  113. Temple of Horus at Athribis
  114. Temple of Heron at Magdola
  115. Theadelphia
  116. Euhemeria
  117. Temple of Isis at Ptolemais
  118. Unknown Temple in Egypt
  119. Synagogue at Leontopolis (?)
  120. Rome
  121. The Review of A.D. 22/23
  122. Doubtful Cases
  123. Plates
  124. Indices
  125. RECIPIENTS OF INVIOLABILITY
  126. GRANTORS OF INVIOLABILITY
  127. GREEK
  128. LATIN
  129. SUBJECTS
  130. TEXTS

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