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400-450 BCE, granting of citizenship, Literary source

Herodotus 8.75. Themistocles and the Granting of Thespian Citizenship to Sicinnus

Shortly before the decisive battle of Salamis (480 BC), the Hellenic army was in danger of falling apart: the conquest and burning of Athens by the Persians had, in fact,...

400-450 BCE, granting of citizenship, Literary source

Herodotus 7, 156. Gelon’s Grants of Citizenship

Before the meeting between the Greek ambassadors and Gelon, which aimed to convince Syracuse to support the Greek contingent against the Persians, Herodotus dedicates a brief digression to Gelon. He,...

Conference

‘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,...

349-300 BCE, Athenian citizenship, citizenship legislation, Literary source, religious institutions and citizenship

Demosthenes 57.41; 57.54. Citizenship Evidence in Against Eubulides: The Role of the Engye and Oral Testimony (345 BCE)

The speech Against Eubulides (Demosth. 57) is a crucial source for understanding how civic identity was defined and contested in Athens during the second half of the 4th century BCE....

449-400 BCE, Athenian citizenship, granting of citizenship, Literary source, religious institutions and citizenship

Thucydides 3.55.3. Granting of Athenian citizenship to the Plataeans

Thucydides is the first author to report a rare case of Athenian citizenship being granted to an entire community, that of the Plataeans. The event is reported in the section...

599-550 BCE, Athenian citizenship, Epigraphic source, lexicon on citizenship, non-citizens

IG I3 1194bis (= IG I2 976 = CEG 13). Tettichos’ monument (575-550 a. C. ca.)

The epitaph for Tettichos, dated between 575 and 550 BCE, represents the oldest surviving example of an Attic funerary epigram. Discovered in a private garden in Sepolia, near Athens, the...

299-250 BCE, citizens registers, citizenship and federal states, citizenship controls, Epigraphic source, honorific decree

BCH 2017. Honorary Decree for the Metics who Fought for Akraiphia and Catalogue of the Recipients (early 3rd century BC)

Our understanding of the tumultuous relationship between the Boeotian koinon and Demetrius Poliorcetes, as documented in literary sources (Plut. Demetr. 39-40; D.S. 21, fr. 25-27; Polyaen. 3.7.2 and 4.7.11), has...

Conference

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

349-300 BCE, citizens registers, citizenship controls, Epigraphic source, honorific decree

IG XII.6.1 18. Honorary Decree for Batichos of Cos (shortly after 322 BC)

The honorary decree for Batichos, a benefactor originally from Cos, is part of a substantial collection of inscriptions that commemorate the period of exile for the Samians (referred to as...

499-400 BCE, lexicon on citizenship, Literary source, non-citizens

Aristoph. Pax 292–299 (ed. Wilson); Lys. 574–584 (ed. Perusino) – Metoikos, xenos, and astos in Two Comedies of Aristophanes (421 BCE; 412/411 BCE)

The two comedies considered here allow us to address the long-standing question regarding the position of the metoikoi within the spectrum of Athenian citizenship—namely, whether they were conceptually associated by...