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Asylia: Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World (Hellenistic Culture and Society)
Asylia Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World - Hellenistic Culture and Society
Author: Kent J. Rigsby
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 phenomenonmainly inscriptions and coinsis scattered in the published record. The...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520200982
ISBN-10: 0520200985
Publication Date: 3/28/1997
Pages: 672
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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