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 PressYear
2023Print ISBN
9780520200982
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1eBook ISBN
9780520916371
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS 1
- LIST OF PLATES
- PREFACE
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- Introduction
- The Documents
- Before Hellenism
- Elis
- Delphi
- Plataea
- Delos
- Greece: Boeotia
- Temple of Athena Itonia, Coroneia
- Temple of Apollo Ptoius, Acraephia
- Temple of Dionysus Cadmeius, Thebes
- Unidentified Boeotian Temple
- Temple of Amphiaraus, Oropus
- Temples of Zeus Basileus and of Trophonius, Lebadeia
- Temple of Apollo Delius, Tanagra
- Alalcomenae
- Greece: Doubtful Cases
- Athens
- Dodona
- Epidaurus
- Calaureia
- Temple of Artemis, Lusi
- Temple of Poseidon, Taenarum
- Hermione
- Nicopolis
- Smyrna and the Temple of Aphrodite Stratonicis
- Temple of Asclepius, Cos
- Tenos
- Chalcedon
- Miletus
- Magnesia on the Maeander
- Teos
- Alabanda
- Temple of Artemis, Amyzon
- Xanthus
- Cyzicus
- Temple of Apollo of Claros, Colophon
- Unidentified City (Bargylia?)
- Temple of Apollo, Anaphe
- Pergamum
- Temple of Artemis, Ephesus
- Temple of Hera, Samos
- Samothrace
- Temple of Pluto and Kore, Nysa
- Mylasa
- Tralles
- Temple of Aphrodite, Aphrodisias
- Sardes
- Temple of the Persian Goddess, Hieracome-Hierocaesarea
- Nicomedia
- Nicaea
- Aezani
- Perge
- Side
- Sillyum
- Hyde
- Tyana
- Comana in Pontus
- Cilicia
- Aegeae
- Hierapolis-Castabala
- Elaeusa-Sebaste
- Mopsuestia
- Soli-Pompeiopolis
- Rhosus
- Epiphaneia
- Tarsus
- Seleuceia on the Calycadnus
- Selinus-Traj anopolis
- Mallus
- Olba
- Phoenicia and Syria Tyre
- Seleuceia in Pieria
- Ptolemais
- Sidon
- Beirut
- Tripolis
- Antioch
- Larisa
- Laodicea ad Mare
- Apamea
- Temple of Zeus, Baetocaece
- Damascus
- Dora
- Samosata
- Nicopolis ad Issum
- Dura-Europus
- Byblos
- Palestine Ascalon
- Gaza
- Sepphoris-Diocaesarea
- Caesarea-Panias
- Joppa
- Raphia
- Jerusalem
- The Decapolis
- Gadara
- Abila
- Capitolias
- Antioch by Hippus
- Nysa-Scythopolis
- Gerasa
- Egypt
- The Sarapeum at Memphis
- Temple of Osiris at Busiris
- Temple of Horus at Athribis
- Temple of Heron at Magdola
- Theadelphia
- Euhemeria
- Temple of Isis at Ptolemais
- Unknown Temple in Egypt
- Synagogue at Leontopolis (?)
- Rome
- The Review of A.D. 22/23
- Doubtful Cases
- Plates
- Indices
- RECIPIENTS OF INVIOLABILITY
- GRANTORS OF INVIOLABILITY
- GREEK
- LATIN
- SUBJECTS
- TEXTS
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