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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Main Author: Rigsby, Kent J., 1945-
Other Authors: EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Ancient Greek
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1996]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 672 pages) : illustrations.
Series: Hellenistic culture and society ; 22.
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