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Zusatztext so far the most important work on the subject of land leases in Classical Athens and it will hold that position for many years to come. The amount of evidence he discusses (some of which he is the first to bring to scholarly attention) must astound even the most stringent of readers. Informationen zum Autor Nikolaos Papazarkadas has taught at Oxford and Trinity College Dublin, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in Greek Epigraphy and has published extensively on inscriptions from Athens and the Cyclades. Klappentext This book examines the ways by which the city-state of Athens, and its various associations, administrative and religious, managed their landed assets. It investigates the close connection between income and sacred property and it analyses notions of sacred and public ownership in antiquity by deconstructing earlier anachronistic interpretations. Zusammenfassung This book examines the ways by which the city-state of Athens, and its various associations, administrative and religious, managed their landed assets. It investigates the close connection between income and sacred property and it analyses notions of sacred and public ownership in antiquity by deconstructing earlier anachronistic interpretations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Modern scholarly responses 2. The Athenian polis as administrator of sacred realty 2.1.: A preliminary note 2.2.: The landed wealth of Athena Polias and the Other Gods 2.3.: The sacred property of the Eleusinian Goddesses: administrative aspects 2.4.: The new polis-gods as proprietors of realty 2.5.: Athenaion Politeia 47.4-5 and the leasing of sacred lands in Classical Athens 2.6.: Investing sacred rentals 2.7.: The economic significance of sacred rentals 3. The constitutional subunits of Athens as administrators of realty 3.1.: The landed assets of the Attic tribes 3.1.i.: The early phase 3.1.ii.: The Athenian reacquisition of Oropos and the tribal land allotment 3.1.iii.: Administration of phyle-properties and tribal economics 3.2.: The real property of the Attic demes 3.2.i.: Prolegomenon 3.2. ii.: The mechanism of leasing 3.2.iii.: Other forms of deme property administration 3.2.iv.: Sales of lands controlled by demes 3.2.v.: Rentals, deme economics, and religion 3.2.vi.: Non-sacral deme property 3.2.vii.: Lessees and purchasers of deme properties 3.2.viii.: The territorial aspect of the Attic demes 3.2.ix.: Epilogue 4. The non-constitutional associations of Athens as administrators of realty 4.1.: The real property of the Attic phratries 4.1.i.: Types of phratric realty 4.1.ii.: Exploitation of phratric realty 4.2.: The Attic gene and their landed property 4.2.i.: Introductory remark 4.2.ii.: The landed wealth of the Salaminioi: a case-study 4.2.iii.: Gentilician property: beyond the Salaminioi 4.2.iv.: An overview 4.3.: The real property of the Attic orgeones 4.3.i.: Leasing out orgeonic property 4.3.ii.: Sales of orgeonic property and the problem of alienation 4.3.iii.: Lessees and purchasers of orgeonic property: some considerations 4.4.: Other types of associations as property administrators 5. Public, non-sacred, realty in ancient Athens 5.1.: The evidence 5.2.: An interpretative analysis 6. Conspectus Appendices Appendix I:: The Sacred Orgas Appendix II:: Moriai: Sacred arboriculture in Classical Athens Appendix III:: IG II2 1593 revisited Appendix IV:: The Theodoreion of the Prasieis Appendix V:: The genos of the Pyrrhakidai Appendix VI:: The split of the Salaminioi and the eponymous archon Phanomachos Appendix VII:: Catalogue of lessees and guarantors of polis-controlled temene Bibliography ...
