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Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World
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In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable". "Asylia" was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon - mainly in-scriptions and coins - is scattered in the published record. The material has never been collected and presented in one publication until now. Kent J. Rigsby lays out these documents and discusses their historical implications in a substantial introduction. He argues that while a hopeful intention of military neutrality lay behind the institution of asylum, the declarations did not in fact change military behaviour. Instead, "declared inviolability" became a civic and religious honour for which cities across the Greek world competed during the third to first centuries B.C.

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Kent J. Rigsby is Professor of Classical Studies at Duke University.
Release date Australia
March 28th, 1997
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  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
660
Dimensions
156x234x48
ISBN-13
9780520200982
Product ID
7697835

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