Asylia : territorial inviolability in the Hellenistic world /
In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable," meaning immune from war. A famous passage of Tacitus describes the appeals of many cities for Roman confirmation of the title. The evidence for this phenomenon - mainly inscriptions and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Ancient Greek |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©1996.
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| Series: | Hellenistic culture and society ;
22. |
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