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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...

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, 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...

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...