Athenian Decree About the Granting of the sitesis

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_9825
dc.title	Athenian Decree About the Granting of the sitesis
dc.contributor.author	Cardinale Sandy
dc.contributor.author	Pizzoli Lorenzo
dc.contributor.author	Tentori Montalto Marco
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/axon/2023/1/decreto-ateniese-relativo-alla-concessione-della-s/
dc.description.abstract	The Athenian decree under discussion is a highly controversial inscription for several reasons, including its dating, which varies between 440 and 424 BCE, and the content of the document itself. The inscription, which is very fragmentary, refers to people who were granted a meal at public expense (sitesis), including the descendants of the tyrannicides, Harmodios and Aristogeiton; perhaps the pythochrestoi or, better, the manteis selected by Apollo; the winners of at least one of the four agones of the periodos; and probably the strategoi. Finally, the hypothesis of conferring proedria together with sitesis is discussed.
dc.relation.ispartof	Axon
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 7 \| Issue 1 \| June 2023
dc.issued	2023-08-03
dc.dateAccepted	2022-09-12
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-04-13
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2532-6848
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Axon/2532-6848/2023/01/001
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Agonistic victors
dc.subject	Apollo
dc.subject	Privileges
dc.subject	Proedria
dc.subject	Tyrannicides

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Athenian Decree About the Granting of the sitesis

Marco Tentori Montalto Università degli Studi di Urbino «Carlo Bo», Italia; Mannheim Universität, Deutschland

Sandy Cardinale Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italia

Lorenzo Pizzoli Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italia

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abstract

The Athenian decree under discussion is a highly controversial inscription for several reasons, including its dating, which varies between 440 and 424 BCE, and the content of the document itself. The inscription, which is very fragmentary, refers to people who were granted a meal at public expense (sitesis), including the descendants of the tyrannicides, Harmodios and Aristogeiton; perhaps the pythochrestoi or, better, the manteis selected by Apollo; the winners of at least one of the four agones of the periodos; and probably the strategoi. Finally, the hypothesis of conferring proedria together with sitesis is discussed.

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Aug. 3, 2023

Accepted

Sept. 12, 2022

Submitted

April 13, 2022

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Keywords: Apollo • Tyrannicides • Privileges • Agonistic victors • Proedria

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