Solon's Law on the Tamiai -- The Solonian Calendar and Solon's Other Laws -- The Politics of Being a Sacred Treasurer in Archaic Athens -- The Tamiai of Athena and Their Duties -- Athena's Property and Hiera Wealth -- Hosia Property and the Public Treasury -- Sacred Property in …
"Students of ancient Athenian politics, governance, and religion have long stumbled over the rich evidence of inscriptions and literary texts that document the Athenians' stewardship of the wealth of the gods. Likewise, Athens was well known for devoting public energy and funds …
The problem of suffering has preoccupied mankind since the earliest times. From the time of Homer to the present day humans have constantly searched for a solution to their suffering and an understanding of it. This study focuses on two expressions of this search through a study…
The problem of suffering has preoccupied mankind since the earliest times. From the time of Homer to the present day humans have constantly searched for a solution to their suffering and an understanding of it. This study focuses on two expressions of this search through a study…
This book is the first comprehensive work focusing on lived ancient religious communication in Roman Dacia. Testing for the first time the "Lived Ancient Religion" approach in terms of a peripheral province from the Danubian area, this work looks at the role of "sacralised" spac…
This book is the first comprehensive work focusing on lived ancient religious communication in Roman Dacia. Testing for the first time the?Lived Ancient Religion? approach in terms of a peripheral province from the Danubian area, this work looks at the role of?sacralised? spaces…