Law and Religion

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ID23491007
AuthorsRobert Parker (0009-0002-6946-7496, corresponding author)
Year2005
Pages61-81
Publication date2005-09-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/ccol0521818400.004
OpenAlexW2502480426
Open LibraryOL3297815M
ISBN9780521818407
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Within the rubric “law and religion,” a bundle of issues are united. One of the most important emerges from a fragmentary decree passed by the Athenian assembly either in the 440s or the 420s: (name lost) proposed. A priestess for Athena Nike . . . shall be appointed from all Athenian women, and a door shall be built for the shrine in accord with the specification of Kallikrates. The leasing officials shall contract out the work in the prytany of Leontis. The priestess shall receive 50 drachmai and the legs and skins of public victims. And a temple and a stone altar shall be built in accord with the specification of Kallikrates. (ML 44) We see here how legislation concerning “the gods” or “the things of the gods” (these being the nearest Greek equivalents for the untranslatable “religion”) was passed in Athens: it went through the people's assembly like legislation on any other topic.

Decree · Pedagogy · Political science · Rubric · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classical Antiquity Studies · Law

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