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

ISBN:

9780520916371

9780585139845

Title:

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

Author:

Rigsby, Kent J., 1945-

Personal Author:

Rigsby, Kent J., 1945-

Publication Information:

Physical 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.

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Subject Term:

Asylum, Right of (Greek law)

Asylum, Right of (Greek law) -- Religious aspects.

Sacred space -- Greece -- History.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

1996

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Summary

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.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.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

Author Notes

Rigsby Kent J. :

Kent J. Rigsby is Professor of Classical Studies at Duke University.