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Rhodes Before the Synoecism and the Cult of Zeus Atabyrios

Issue 3 from 16.09.2021

The question has been asked whether there already existed a federal state regrouping the three Rhodian cities in the Archaic and early Classical period, before the start of the process of unification of the Rhodian cities at the end of the fifth century BCE. This essay argues that although the existence of a formal Rhodian federal state remains unproven, there existed other institutional structures that linked the three Rhodian cities. They shared a common membership in the Hellenion of Naucratis in Egypt, a sanctuary that was managed by nine cities of western Asia Minor on the model of an amphictiony. The organization of their common cult of Zeus Atabyrios also had the characteristics of an amphictiony. A new restoration of an early Hellenistic dedication of the attendants of the cult proves the existence at that time of a rotating priesthood of this god between the three cities. This may suggest that such a system existed already before the synoecism and even that the organization of the common priesthood of Halios, the cult of the unified Rhodian state, was modeled on that of the previous organization of the cult of Zeus Atabyrios.

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The Greek Inscription from Garni (Armenia) and King Tiridates the Great. Part I. Prolegomena

Issue 3 from 26.09.2022

Since the discovery at Garni (Armenia) in 1945 of a Greek inscription mentioning a king Tiridates (Trdat), there has been an ongoing debate on the identification of this king. On the basis of paleography and content, most scholars have preferred to date the document to the first-century CE reign of Tiridates I, despite what seemed to be a suggestive indication from the historian of Armenia Moses Khorenatsi that Tiridates the Great, in the early fourth century CE, had dedicated a Greek inscription in memory of his sister at Garni. This study attributes the inscription to the reign of Tiridates the Great, although it shows also that this text cannot be the one referred to by Moses Khorenatsi. This reattribution is of special importance for the early history of Armenia. It paves the way for a new analysis of the reign of the king who initiated the Christianization of the country. Our next article, in a forthcoming issue, will offer a new and full critical edition of the inscription, comparing it with prior reconstructions.

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The Greek Inscription from Garni (Armenia) and King Tiridates the Great. Part II

Issue 4 from 23.12.2022

After showing in the first part of this article that the Greek inscription from the Garni fortress must be attributed to the reign of Tiridates III and not to that of Tiridates I, we provide here the announced new and full critical edition of the text.

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CLERUCHIC LAND: ATHENS, MACEDON, AND THE HELLENISTIC KINGDOMS

Issue number 1 from 12.01.2026

Этот очерк служит введением к четырем статьям на тему клерухий, посвященным памяти М.И. Ростовцева. Они призваны показать, что не только правовая основа, регулировавшая основание военных поселений в эллинистических царствах, была унаследована от Македонии (что, впрочем, не значит, что она была везде одинакова), но также и то, что существовал стандартный греческий архетип клерухии, о чем позволяет судить афинское постановление конца эпохи архаики относительно клерухии на о. Саламин.

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SALAMIS: AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ATHENIAN CLERUCHIC SYSTEM

Issue number 1 from 12.01.2026

Данная статья путем исследования процесса создания афинской клерухии на о. Саламин в конце архаического периода демонстрирует «археологию» системы клерухий. Обзор начинается с анализа позднеархаической надписи, которая устанавливает правила, применяющиеся к владельцам наделов в клерухиях. Затем, после краткого анализа войны между Афинами и Мегарой за обладание Саламином, рассматривается вопрос о происхождении рода Саламиниев и предлагается новое решение, связанное с обстоятельствами создания клерухий на Саламине. Статья завершается рассмотрением структурных и определяющих условий для создания клерухии.

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