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Metics and the Athenian Phialai-Inscriptions: A Study in Athenian Epigraphy and Law: 208 (Historia - Einzelschriften, 208) - Hardcover
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The world of the resident foreigner in Classical Athens, the metic, was perilous. Emblematic of metic status was the requirement to pay a special metic tax, the metoikion. If this tax were not paid, the metic would be sold into slavery. A celebrated set of Athenian inscriptions recording dedications of silver cups, phialai, here published for the first time as a corpus, reflect this procedure. Known since the nineteenth century as the "Attic Manumissions," these inscriptions have been thought to be the result of a legal process by which slaves were set free. But it is shown here that they preserve traces not of the liberation of slaves, but prosecutions of metics for failure to pay the metic tax. In the context of legislation in the 33os BC to improve the lot of metics and entice more to Athens, prosecutors who did not win conviction were fined, and a tithe was paid to the god in the form of a silver cup.
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- VerlagFranz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh
- Erscheinungsdatum2010
- ISBN 10 3515093311
- ISBN 13 9783515093316
- EinbandTapa dura
- Anzahl der Seiten167
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Metics and the Athenian Phialai-Inscriptions. A Study in Athenian Epigraphy and Law (Historia. Zeitschrift f. Alte Geschichte - Einzelschriften (Hist-E); Bd. 208).
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Buchbeschreibung Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 167 S., mit 4 s/w-Abb. im Text u. 47 s/w-Abb. auf Taf. im Anhang. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // 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 metic condition, this volume argues, that a celebrated set of fourth-century BC Athenian inscriptions recording dedications of silver cups, phialai, belong. Known since the nineteenth century as the "Attic Manumissions", these inscriptions have been thought to be the result of a legal process by which slaves were set free. Here these inscriptions are published as a corpus for the first time. And it is argued that they represent not the freeing of slaves, but preserve instead the traces of prosecutions of metics for failure to pay the metoikion. In the new pro-metic atmosphere of the 330s BC, persons who sued metics for failing to pay the metic tax, but did not win a conviction, were fined to discourage frivolous suits, and part of that fine was dedicated to divinity in the form of a phiale. ISBN: 9783515093316 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 546. Artikel-Nr. 12417
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