citizenship

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

Thucydides 2.29.1-7. Granting of Athenian Citizenship to the Thracian Sadokos (431 BC)

At the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, in the summer of 431, the Athenians entered into an alliance with the Thracians. The symmachia with King Sitalkes, son of the powerful...

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...

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

Aristophanes, Lys. 335-343, 1043-1053 (ed. Perusino). Citizens and women (411 BCE)

At vv. 335–343 of the Lysistrata, the semicorps of old women reports having heard that the old men (comprising the other semicorps) were planning to set fire to the entrance...

400-450 BCE, Epigraphic source, lexicon on citizenship, public offices

Gagarin – Perlman G51 (I.Cret. IV 51; Nomima II, 13)Oath of Witnesses at Gortyn (500–450 BCE)

Although highly fragmentary, the inscription nevertheless allows for a broad reconstruction—albeit with several uncertainties—of the law’s contents. It appears to regulate the procedure to be followed for the swearing of...

400-450 BCE, granting of citizenship, Literary source

Herodotus IX, 33-35. The granting of Spartan citizenship to Tisamenus of Elea (ca. 480 BC)

This is the first attestation of the term politeia and, rather unexpectedly, it concerns Sparta, one of the most strict cities, at least in the classical age, in the delimitation...

399-350 BCE, citizenship and federal states, Epigraphic source, honorific decree, public offices

IG V 2 1. Decreto onorifico della Confederazione arcadica per l’ateniese Phylarchos (369-363 a.C.)

Iscrizione stoichedica da Tegea, ora perduta, composta da un decreto di prossenia e una lista, in tutta probabilità completa, di magistrati federali. Il documento deve essere successivo al sinecismo di...

549-500 BCE, Epigraphic source, lexicon on citizenship, public offices

IvO 9 (Minon, I.dial.éléennes 10). Symmachia between Elis and Eua (?) (ca. 500 BCE)

The bronze tablet discovered at Olympia preserves the text of a century-long treaty of symmachia between the city of Elis and the otherwise unknown community of Eua, probably a small...

449-400 BCE, lexicon on citizenship, Literary source

Soph. Ant. vv. 78–79, 192–193, 905–908 (ed. Lloyd-Jones – Wilson). The politai of Thebes in the Antigone (442–441 BCE)

In the selected passages, the expression bia politōn occurs twice, denoting in both cases the violation of the will of the citizens through the burial of Polyneices. Here politōn is...