Metics and the Athenian Phialai-Inscriptions
A Study in Athenian Epigraphy and Law
Beneath the shining world of the citizen of Classical Athens was the perilous shadow-realm of the resident foreigner, the metic. Emblematic of the status of metic was the requirement to pay a special metic tax, the metoikion. And if a metic failed to pay this tax, he or she would be sold into slavery, a fate that threatened no citizen of the classical Athenian polis. In the late fourth century BC the Athenians, in the face of widespread departure of metics in the face of economic recession and legal harassment, moved to improve metics' legal situation in order to entice metics back to Athens.It is to the context of these legal reforms of the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-515-09331-6
- EAN: 9783515093316
- Produktnummer: 16532644
- Verlag: Steiner Franz Verlag
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 167 S.
- Masse: H24.5 cm x B17.8 cm x D2.0 cm 555 g
- Abbildungen: 3 Schwarz-Weiß- Abbildungen, 47 Tafeln
- Reihenbandnummer: 208
- Gewicht: 555
Über den Autor
Elizabeth A. Meyer is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Legitimacy and Law in the Roman World: Tabulae in Roman Belief and Practice (Cambridge, 2004) and Metics and the Athenian Phialai-Inscriptions (Stuttgart, 2010), as well as numerous articles in Greek and Roman history.She is particularly interested in social and cultural history, the history of writing and inscribing, and legal epigraphy.
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