Asylia : territorial inviolability in the Hellenistic world / Kent J. Rigsby.

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Rigsby, Kent J, 1945-

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TextLanguage: English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Series: Hellenistic culture and society ; 22.Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 672 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520916371
0520916379
0585139849
9780585139845

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Asylia.DDC classification:

342.495/083 344.950283 20

LOC classification:

KL4363 .R54 1996eb

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15.51
6,11
6,12
6,15
NH 6400
NH 6840
PV 255

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Contents:

Introduction -- The documents -- Before Hellenism -- Greece : Boeotia -- Greece : doubtful cases -- Smyrna -- Cos -- Tenos -- Chalcedon -- Miletus -- Magnesia on the Maeander -- Teos -- Alabanda -- Amyzon -- Xanthus -- Cyzicus -- Colophon -- Unidentified city -- Anaphe -- Pergamum -- Ephesus -- Samos -- Samothrace -- Nysa -- Mylasa -- Tralles -- Stratonicieia -- Aphrodisias -- Sardes -- Hieracome -- Nicomedia -- Nicaea -- Aezani -- Perge -- Side -- Sillyum -- Hyde -- Tyana -- Comana in Pontus -- Cilicia -- Phoenicia and Syria -- Palestine -- The Decapolis -- Egypt -- Rome -- The review of A.D. 22/3 -- Doubtful cases -- Indices.

Summary: In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable," meaning immune from war. A famous passage of Tacitus describes the appeals of many cities for Roman confirmation of the title. The evidence for this phenomenon - mainly inscriptions and coins - is scattered in the published record, but the material has never been collected and presented in one publication until now. In Asylia: Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World, Kent J. Rigsby lays out these documents and discusses their historical implications. Rigsby argues that while a hopeful intention of military neutrality lay behind this diplomatic gesture, the declarations of asylum did not in fact change the military behavior of the Greeks; declared inviolability in effect became primarily a civic and religious honor for which cities across the Greek world competed during the third to first centuries B.C. Of the many civic titles for which Greek cities competed by Roman Imperial times, this was the first.

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In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable," meaning immune from war. A famous passage of Tacitus describes the appeals of many cities for Roman confirmation of the title. The evidence for this phenomenon - mainly inscriptions and coins - is scattered in the published record, but the material has never been collected and presented in one publication until now. In Asylia: Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World, Kent J. Rigsby lays out these documents and discusses their historical implications. Rigsby argues that while a hopeful intention of military neutrality lay behind this diplomatic gesture, the declarations of asylum did not in fact change the military behavior of the Greeks; declared inviolability in effect became primarily a civic and religious honor for which cities across the Greek world competed during the third to first centuries B.C. Of the many civic titles for which Greek cities competed by Roman Imperial times, this was the first.

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