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

Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 672 pages) : illustrations Series Hellenistic culture and society ; 22 Hellenistic culture and society ; 22. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes English and Greek Print version record Subject Asylum, Right of (Greek law) Asylum, Right of (Greek law) -- Religious aspects Sacred space -- Greece -- History LAW -- Constitutional. LAW -- Public. LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. HISTORY / Ancient / General Asylum, Right of (Greek law) Sacred space Asyl Diplomatie Hellenismus Vrije steden. Hellenisme. Oudheid. Asielrecht. Law - Non-U.S. Law, Politics & Government. Law - Africa, Asia, Pacific & Antarctica. Droit d'asile (droit grec) Lieux sacrés -- Grèce -- Histoire. Aspect religieux. Droit d'asile. Lieu sacré Greece Griechenland Altertum Grèce antique. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 95022410 ISBN 9780520916371 0520916379 0585139849 9780585139845

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