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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,...

149-100 BCE, 349-300 BCE, Epigraphic source, lexicon on citizenship, non-citizens

Quintus Tullius and His Greek Freedmen – ID 1802 (c. 100 BC)

The inscription records the dedication of a statue to Quintus Tullius by three of his freedmen: Heracleon, Aristarchus, and Alexander (on these individuals, see Ferrary–Hasenohr–Le Dinahet 2002, 218, nos. 4–7;...

449-400 BCE, Literary source, non-citizens

[Xenophon], Ath. 10-12. The difficulty of distinguishing citizens from non-citizens in Athens (years 20s of the 5th century BCE)

This text comes from a pamphlet that was erroneously attributed to Xenophon in the manuscript tradition. Its anonymous author strongly disapproves of Athenian democracy. However, he explains to a fictitious...