Asylia (eBook)

Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World

Kent J. Rigsby (Autor)

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2023
660 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-91637-1 (ISBN)

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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

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Hellenistic Culture and Society
• Reihe/Serie: Hellenistic Culture and Society
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: 1st century • 3rd century • Asylum • changing military behavior • civic honor • Coins • declarations • declared inviolability • Evidence • Greece • greek cities • Greek temples • Greek World • Hellenistic period • historical implications • immune to civil authority • immune to violence • Inscriptions • institution of asylum • military neutrality • Religion • religious honor
• ISBN-10: 0-520-91637-9 / 0520916379
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91637-1 / 9780520916371