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Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (Hardcover)
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Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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Landed wealth was crucial for the economies of all Greek
city-states and, despite its peculiarities, Athens was no exception
in that respect. This monograph is the first exhaustive treatment
of sacred and public - in other words the non-private - real
property in Athens. Following a survey of modern scholarship on the
topic, Papazarkadas scrutinizes literary, epigraphic, and
archaeological evidence in order to examine lands and other types
of realty administered by the polis of Athens and its
constitutional and semi-official subdivisions (such as tribes,
demes, and religious associations). Contrary to earlier
anachronistic models which saw sacred realty as a thinly disguised
form of state property, the author perceives the sanctity of temene
(sacred landholdings) as meaningful, both conceptually and
economically. In particular, he detects a seamless link between
sacred rentals and cultic activity. This link is markedly visible
in two distinctive cases: the border area known as Sacred Orgas, a
constant source of contention between Athens and Megara; and the
moriai, Athena's sacred olive-trees, whose crop was the coveted
prize of the Panathenaic games. Both topics are treated in separate
appendices as are several other problems, not least the
socio-economic profile of those involved in the leasing of sacred
property, emerging from a detailed prosopographical analysis.
However, certain non-private landholdings were secular and
alienable, and their exploitation was often based on financial
schemes different from those applied in the case of temene. This
gives the author the opportunity to analyze and elucidate ancient
notions of public and sacred ownership.
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