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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.

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title:Asylia : Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World Hellenistic Culture and Society ; 22
author:Rigsby, Kent J.
publisher:University of California Press
isbn10 | asin:0520200985
print isbn13:9780520200982
ebook isbn13:9780585139845
language:English
subjectAsylum, Right of (Greek law) , Asylum, Right of (Greek law)--Religious aspects, Sacred space--Greece--History.
publication date:1996
lcc:KL4363.R54 1996eb
ddc:342.495/083
subject:Asylum, Right of (Greek law) , Asylum, Right of (Greek law)--Religious aspects, Sacred space--Greece--History.
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Hellenistic Culture and Society
General Editors: Anthony W. Bulloch, Erich S. Gruen, A. A. Long, and Andrew F. Stewart
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I. Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age, by Peter Green
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II. Hellenism in the East: The Interaction of Greek and Non-Greek Civilizations from Syria to Central Asia after Alexander, edited by Amlie Kuhrt and Susan Sherwin-White
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III. The Question of "Eclecticism": Studies in Later Greek Philosophy, edited by J. M. Dillon and A. A. Long
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IV. Antigonus the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State, by Richard A. Billows
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V. A History of Macedonia, by R. Malcolm Errington, translated by Catherine Errington
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VI. Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C., by Stephen V. Tracy
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VII. The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World, by Luciano Canfora
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VIII. Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind, by Julia Annas
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IX. Hellenistic Culture and History, by Peter Green et al.
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X. The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book 1 of Apollonius's Argonautica, by James J. Clauss
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XI. Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics, by Andrew Stewart
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XII. Images and Ideologies: Self-Definition in the Hellenlstic World, by A. W. Bulloch et al.
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XIII. From Samarkand to Sardis: A New Approach to the Seleucid Empire, by Susan Sherwin-White and Amlie Kuhri
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XIV. Regionalism and Change in the Economy of Independent Delos, by Gary Reger
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XV. Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East from 148 to 62 B.C., by Robert Kallet-Marx
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XVI. Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius, by Arthur M. Eckstein
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XVII. The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor, by Getzel M. Cohen
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XVIII. Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 337-90 B.C., by Sheila L. Ager
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XIX. Theocritus's Urban Mimes: Mobility, Gender, and Patronage, by Joan B. Burton
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XX. Athenian Democracy in Transition: Attic Letter-Cutters of 340 to 290 B.C., by Stephen V. Tracy
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XXI. Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora, by Bezalel Bar-Kochva
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XXII. Asylia: Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World, by Kent J. Rigsby
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XXIII. The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy, edited by R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Caz
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