Sacred and public land in ancient Athens

Sacred and public land in ancient Athens / Nikolaos Papazarkadas.

"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 mo...

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Main Author: Papazarkadas, Nikolaos, 1974-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Oxford classical monographs.
Subjects:
Land use > Economic aspects > Greece > Athens > History.
Real property > Economic aspects > Greece > Athens > History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
Land use > Economic aspects
Real property > Economic aspects
Greece > Athens
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : sacred and public land : modern scholarly responses
  • The Athenian polis as administrator of sacred realty. A preliminary note
  • The landed wealth of Athena Polias and the other gods
  • The sacred property of the Eleusinian Goddesses : administrative aspects
  • The new polis-gods as proprietors of realty
  • Athenaion Politeia 47.4-5 and the leasing of sacred lands in classical Athens
  • Investing sacred rentals
  • The economic significance of sacred rentals
  • The constitutional subunits of Athens as administrators of realty. The landed assets of the Attic tribes
  • The real property of the Attic demes
  • The non-constitutional associations of Athens as administrators of realty. The real property of the Attic phratries
  • The Attic gene and their landed property
  • The real property of the Attic orgeones
  • Other types of associations as property administrators
  • Public, non-sacred, realty in ancient Athens. The evidence
  • An interpretative analysis
  • Conspectus
  • Appendices. The sacred orgas
  • Moriai : sacred arboriculture in classical Athens
  • IG II2 1593 revisited
  • The Theodoreion of the Prasieis
  • The genos of the Pyrrhakidai
  • The split of the Salaminioi and the eponymous archon Phanomachos
  • Catalogue of lessees and guarantors of polis-controlled temene.

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