Metics and the Athenian 'Phialai'-Inscriptions
A Study in Athenian Epigraphy and Law
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Elizabeth A. Meyer
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Elizabeth A. Meyer
- 2010, 167 Seiten, 3 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 17,8 x 24,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Franz Steiner Verlag
- ISBN-10: 3515093311
- ISBN-13: 9783515093316
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.07.2010
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Englisch
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"Meyer's book has provided a very useful collection and edition of the texts along with a convincing interpretation of their process of recording and publication. It deserves to be read with attention even by those who might disagree with the central interpretation and it will be undoubtedly [sic] at the centre of any future discussion of these deeply fascinating inscriptions." -- http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2011/2011-02-48.html"As the author (long ago) of a monograph on Athen's metics, and thus someone with many settled views about them, I took on the review of this book in a sceptical mood, but I have become a convert. Meyer's study displays impeccable bibliographical depth and tremendous intellectual rigour and penetration, all on display in a wealth of detail .... The relative ease with which she is able to expose the many, often self-contradictory, flaws and problems which beset the orthodox understanding of the phialai-inscriptions (17 - 28) makes it all-but-impossible, in my opinion, to continue to take refuge in it, against the onslaught of her own, new model." -- sehepunkte 10, 2010/9
"[Es] besteht kein Zweifel über den Wert von Neuedition und Kommentar der Inschriften, die Meyer im zweiten Teil ihres Werkes vorlegt (S. 81-144). Abgerundet wird das Buch durch eine umfangreiche Bibliographie (S. 147-54), einen Sach- (S. 157-61) und einen Quellenindex (S. 163-67) sowie 47 Photographien der Inschriften. Allein schon wegen dieses Teils werden Forscher, die sich künftig mit der Situation der Metöken in Athen beschäftigen, Meyers Arbeit unbedingt heranziehen müssen." -- Das Historisch-Politische Buch 59, 2011/6
"Die Neuedition, vor allem aber die erstmalige kompakte Zusammenstellung der Phialai-Inschriften in einem eigenen Band, zeichnen Meyers Buch im Besonderen aus. [...] Nichtsdestotrotz liegt mit dem Standwerk Meyers weit mehr vor als bloß ein "Impuls" für weitergehende Diskussion." -- Tyche 26, 2011
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"Meyer's book has provided a very useful collection and edition of the texts along with a convincing interpretation of their process of recording and publication. It deserves to be read with attention even by those who might disagree with the central interpretation and it will be undoubtedly [sic] at the centre of any future discussion of these deeply fascinating inscriptions." Kostas Vlassopoulos http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2011/2011-02-48.html
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