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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...

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...

399-350 BCE, Athenian citizenship, citizenship and democracy, Epigraphic source, granting of citizenship, honorific decree

IG II² 17 (D8 Osborne). Honorary Decree for Sthorys of Thasos (394/3 BC)

The inscription, dated to 394/3 BC, consists of two decrees, issued a short distance apart, in favour of Sthorys, a soothsayer from Thasos. The first decree, enacted by the council,...

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...