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‘Sharing in the polis’. Citizenship and forms of civic participation in the Greek world

International conference PRIN 2020 – ‘Sharing in the community’: citizenship and society in the Greek world (VII-II century BC) – 16–18 June 2025 Aula 113 – Via Festa del Perdono,...

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Symposion 2024

XXIV Convegno della Società Internazionale di Storia del Diritto greco ed ellenistico / 24th Meeting of the Society for Greek and Hellenistic Legal History, , Università degli Studi di Milano...

349-300 BCE, Athenian citizenship, business partnerships, civic groups, Literary source, non-citizens

The Athenian Citizen and the Outsider – The δίκηἐμπορική (dikē emporikē) ([Dem.] 32.1; 33.1; 34.42; 35.3) – second half of the 4th century BC

The four passages presented here outline, in broad terms, the text of the law regulating commercial suits (dikai emporikai). From passage (a) it appears that the law allowed merchants and...

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Conference on Theory and Practice of Citizenship in the Greek World

Convegno Milano, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 1-2 luglio 2024 Via Nirone, 15, Aula NI.110-111 – Milano

449-400 BCE, Athenian citizenship, lexicon on citizenship, Literary source, non-citizens

Euripides, Heracl. 181-200. Exile as Loss of Citizenship (430 BC)

When Euripides premiered the Heracleidai, likely in 430 BC, the Peloponnesian invasion of Attica had already occurred. The Athenian audience had witnessed firsthand a Peloponnesian army follow the same path...

Lecture

Le lien entre la citoyenneté et la terre dans le monde des cités grecques

Université Paris Nanterre, salle 1 du bâtiment Max Weber vendredi 2 février 2024 de 10h à 13h Pr. Michele FARAGUNA (Professeur d’histoire grecque à l’Università degli Studi di Milano) “Land...

400-450 BCE, Epigraphic source, lexicon on citizenship

ICret. IV 72, coll. I, ll. 39-44; III, ll. 17-22; V, ll. 44-54; VI, ll. 31-36; VII, ll. 41-47 – The dromeus in Gortyn (450 BCE ca.)

The term dromeus occurs five times in the Great Code of Gortyn. In three of these instances, it appears as a requirement for witnesses in the context of private disputes...

699-650 BCE, Epigraphic source, lexicon on citizenship, public offices

Gagarin – Perlman Dr1 (Nomima I, 81). Law of Dreros on the prohibition of holding the office of kosmos more than once within ten years (mid-7th century BCE)

The inscription contains, in boustrophedon script, the text of an ancient law from the small Cretan city of Dreros, dating to the mid-7th century BCE. Although the syntactic structure leaves...

400-450 BCE, Athenian citizenship, lexicon on citizenship, Literary source

Aeschylus, Eumenides 487–488, 690–693, 696–698, 707–708, 804–807 (ed. Page).The Citizens, the Areopagus, and the Laws (c. 460 BCE)

At vv. 690–692 of the Eumenides, Athena speaks of the reverence and fear that the Areopagus would henceforth inspire in the astoi, but immediately afterwards (v. 693) the goddess clarifies...

349-300 BCE, Epigraphic source, honorific decree, non-citizens

IG II³ 302. Honorary Decree for Dioskourides of Abdera and his Brothers (346/5 BC)

The entry of Philip II into the territory of Abdera (Demosth. 23.183; Polyaen. 4.2.22), variously dated between 355 and 347 BC, resulted in the expulsion of Athenian partisans. This honorary...