1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 39 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • basileis • basileus, basileis
Found in books: Humphreys (2018) 226; Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 44
39. δωροφάγους, οἳ τήνδε δίκην ἐθέλουσι δίκασσαι.''. None | 39. We split our goods in two, but, capturing''. None |
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2. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • archon basileus • archôn basileus • basileis • basileus • basileus wife of • basileus, Royal Stoa • basileus, and Eleusinian cults • basileus, lessor of temene • basileus, paredroi of • basileus, patrioi thysiai performed by • basileus, wife of • prayers, by basileus
Found in books: Dignas (2002) 26; Humphreys (2018) 22, 640; Mikalson (2016) 59, 60, 110, 111, 112, 167, 171, 217, 219, 299; Papazarkadas (2011) 36, 52, 53, 54, 55, 58, 63, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 79, 80, 256; Parker (2005) 303; Seaford (2018) 32
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3. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • basileus • basileus, and Eleusinian cults • basileus, patrioi thysiai performed by • basileus, wife of
Found in books: Mikalson (2016) 83, 122; Papazarkadas (2011) 80
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4. Plutarch, Cimon, 8.7 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • archon basileus • basileus • prayers, by basileus
Found in books: Jouanna (2018) 77; Mikalson (2016) 66, 169
8.7. ἔθεντο δʼ εἰς μνήμην αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν τῶν τραγῳδῶν κρίσιν ὀνομαστὴν γενομένην. πρώτην γὰρ διδασκαλίαν τοῦ Σοφοκλέους ἔτι νέου καθέντος, Ἀψεφίων ὁ ἄρχων, φιλονεικίας οὔσης καὶ παρατάξεως τῶν θεατῶν, κριτὰς μὲν οὐκ ἐκλήρωσε τοῦ ἀγῶνος, ὡς δὲ Κίμων μετὰ τῶν συστρατήγων προελθὼν εἰς τὸ θέατρον ἐποιήσατο τῷ θεῷ τὰς νενομισμένας σπονδάς, οὐκ ἀφῆκεν αὐτοὺς ἀπελθεῖν, ἀλλʼ ὁρκώσας ἠνάγκασε καθίσαι καὶ κρῖναι δέκα ὄντας, ἀπὸ φυλῆς μιᾶς ἕκαστον.''. None | 8.7. ''. None |
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5. None, None, nan (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Basilius
Found in books: Hanghan (2019) 100; Hitch (2017) 100
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6. Demosthenes, Orations, 21.52, 43.58
Tagged with subjects: • archon basileus • basileus • basileus, lessor of temene • basileus, wife of
Found in books: Mikalson (2016) 112, 121, 171; Papazarkadas (2011) 68; Seaford (2018) 32
| 21.52. Please take and read the actual oracles. The Oracles You I address, Pandion’s townsmen and sons of Erechtheus, who appoint your feasts by the ancient rites of your fathers. See you forget not Bacchus, and joining all in the dances Down your broad-spaced streets, in thanks ἱστάναι χάριν, if the Greek is sound, seems to be a portmanteau phrase to set up a dance in gratitude. The oracle quoted may perfectly well be genuine. for the gifts of the season, Crown each head with a wreath, while incense reeks on the altars. For health sacrifice and pray to Zeus Most High, to Heracles, and to Apollo the Protector; for good fortune to Apollo, god of the streets, to Leto, and to Artemis; and along the streets set wine-bowls and dances, and wear garlands after the manner of your fathers in honor of all gods and all goddesses of Olympus, raising right hands and left in supplication, Translating λιτάς, Weil ’s suggestion. and remember your gifts.
43.58. In the case of slaves he shall give notice to their masters, and in the case of freemen to those possessing their property; and if the deceased had no property, the Demarch shall give notice to the relatives of the deceased. And if, after the Demarch shall have given notice, the relatives do not take up the body, the Demarch shall contract for the taking up and burial of the body, and for the purification of the deme on the same day at the lowest possible cost. And if he shall not so contract, he shall be bound to pay a thousand drachmae into the public treasury. And whatsoever he shall expend, he shall exact double the amount from those liable; and if he does not exact it he shall himself be under obligation to repay it to the demesmen. And those who do not pay the rents due for the lands of the goddess or of the gods and the eponymous heroes shall be disenfranchised, themselves and their family and their heirs, until they shall make payment. ''. None |
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7. Epigraphy, Ig I , 7, 84, 136
Tagged with subjects: • archon basileus • archôn basileus • basileus • basileus, Royal Stoa • basileus, and Eleusinian cults • basileus, and Pelargikon • basileus, lessor of temene • basileus, paredroi of • basileus, wife of
Found in books: Dignas (2002) 32, 97; Humphreys (2018) 482, 555; Mikalson (2016) 115, 121, 218; Papazarkadas (2011) 23, 36, 53, 58, 63, 72, 73, 129, 139
| 7. The Council and People decided. - was the prytany. - was secretary. - was chairman. - proposed: concerning the request of the Praxiergidai to write up the oracle of the god and the decrees formerly made about them (5) on a stone stele and set it down on the acropolis (polei) behind the old temple; . . . . . . ; and the money . . . . . . of the goddess according to ancestral tradition . . . the payment officers (kolakretai) shall give them the money. (10) Apollo issued the following oracle: it is better for the Praxiergidai to put the peplos on the goddess and make preliminary sacrifice to the Fates, to Zeus Leader of the Fates, to Earth . . . Uninscribed space These are the ancestral traditions of the Praxiergidai . . . . . . Uncertain amount of text missing (15) . . . provide (?) (parechen) . . . for the Praxiergi?dai . . . the fleece (koidion) . . . according to tradition . . . provide (parechen) (20) . . . Thargelion . . . the archon shall give (?) . . . in accordance with ancestral tradition. The Praxiergidai shall put on the peplos. (25) The Praxiergidai shall pay for (apotinen?) (?) a medimnos of barley. text from Attic Inscriptions Online, IG I3
7 - Decree about genos Praxiergidai
84. Gods. Decree 1 The Council and the People decided. Pandionis was in prytany, Aristoxenos was secretary, Antiochides was chairman, Antiphon was archon (418/
7); Adosios proposed: to fence in the sanctuary (hieron) of Kodros and Neleus and Basile and (5) to lease (misthōsai) the sacred precinct (temenos) according to the specifications (suggraphas). Let the official sellers (pōlētai) make the contract (apomisthōsantōn) for the fencing in. Let the king (basileus) lease (apomisthōsatō) the sacred precinct according to the specifications, and let him despatch the boundary-commissioners (horistas) to demarcate these sanctuaries (hiera) so that they may be in the best and most pious condition. The money for the fencing in shall come from the sacred precinct. They shall carry out these provisions before the end of this Council\'s term of office, (10) otherwise each shall be liable to a fine of one thousand drachmas according to what has been proposed (eiremena). Decree 2 Adosios proposed: in other respects in accordance with the Council’s proposal, but let the king (basileus) and the official sellers (pōlētai) lease (misthōsatō) the sacred precinct of Neleus and Basile for twenty years according to the specifications. The lessee (misthōsamenos) shall fence in the sanctuary (hieron) of Kodros and Neleus and Basile at his own expense. Whatever (15) rent the sacred precinct may produce in each year, let him deposit the money in the ninth prytany (prutaneias) with the receivers (apodektai), and let the receivers (apodektais) hand it over to the treasurers of the Other Gods according to the law. If the king (basileus) or anyone else of those instructed about these matters does not carry out what has been decreed in the prytany (prutaneias) of Aigeis, (20) let him be liable to a fine of 10,000 drachmas. The purchaser of the mud (ilun) shall remove it from the ditch (taphro) during this very Council after paying to Neleus the price at which he made the purchase. Let the king (basileus) erase the name of the purchaser of the mud (ilun) once he has paid the fee (misthōsin). Let the king (basileus) write up instead (anteggraphsato) on the wall the name of the lessee (misthōsamenos) of the sacred precinct and for how much he has rented (misthōsētai) it (25) and the names of the guarantors in accordance with the law that concerns the sacred precincts (temenōn). So that anyone who wishes may be able to know, let the secretary (grammateus) of the Council inscribe this decree on a stone stele and place it in the Neleion next to the railings (ikria).10 Let the payment officers (kolakretai) give the money to this end. The king (basileus) shall lease (misthoun) the sacred precinct of Neleus and of Basile on the following terms: (30) that the lessee (misthōsamenos) fence in the sanctuary (hieron) of Kodros and Neleus and Basile according to the specifications (suggraphas) during the term of the Council that is about to enter office, and that he work the sacred precinct of Neleus and Basile on the following terms: that he plant young sprouts of olive trees, no fewer than 200, and more if he wishes; that the lessee (misthōsamenos) have control of the ditch (taphro) and the water from Zeus,11 (35) as much as flows in between the Dionysion and the gates whence the initiates march out to the sea, and as much as flows in between the public building (oikias tes demosias)12 and the gates leading out to the bath of Isthmonikos; lease (misthoun) it for twenty years. text from Attic Inscriptions Online, IG I3
84 - Decree on the administration of the property of Kodros, Neleus and Basile
136. Fragments a+c Relief Pasiphon of Phrearrhioi was secretary. Decree 1 The Council and the People decided; – was in prytany; Pasiphon was secretary; -kles was chairman; Kleokritos (413/2) was archon (?); . . . proposed: . . . a rite of expulsion (?) (diapompaion) from the city . . . –stratos. After this (5) make a vow . . . from each tribe will sacrifice, if . . . the enemy . . . and the other things which . . . advises (parainei) . . . for Bendis and the statue (agalma) . . . and the stele (10) . . . they will take care . . . the People . . . and for this purpose . . . for Bendis . . . . . . always each of the two . . . (15) . . . Thracian woman . . . . . . . . . Fragment b . . . . . . nine . . . (20) . . . and a cult tax (eparche-) . . . . . . which occurred . . . . . . the cult tax (eparches) for . . . . . . for whatever it is sold . . . . . . and his assistants (paredroi); and the . . . (25) . . . as handsomely as possible; and to sacrifice . . . . . . the Council and anyone else who . . . . . . perform the all-night rite (pannuchida) as handsomely as possible . . . . . . on the eleventh of the month . . . . . . whether the wife of the priest (?) ought . . . (30) . . . (from) all the Athenians, let them send . . . . . . as soon as possible; and whatever (the god) responds . . . . . . shall receive of the sacrifices made publicly . . . . . . from ten sacrificial victims;10 and the other skins . . . . . . in future the religious officials (hieropoious) shall carry out an allotment about these matters . . . (35) . . . on each occasion for Bendis at a cost of fifty drachmas . . . . . . prytany; and let the payment officers (kolakretai) give the money . . . . . . the Council shall be authorised . . . Let the secretary of the Council write up this decree on a stone stele and set it down in the Bendideion?;11 and let the official sellers (poletai) put the work out to contract; and let the payment officers (kolakretai) provide the money. Decree 2 (40) . . . proposed: in other respects in accordance with ...12 . . . text from Attic Inscriptions Online, IG I3
136 - Decree about the cult of Bendis ''. None |
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8. Epigraphy, Ig Ii2, 47, 1177, 1229, 1362, 1496
Tagged with subjects: • archôn basileus • basileus • basileus, and Eleusinian cults • basileus, lessor of temene • basileus, patrioi thysiai performed by
Found in books: Humphreys (2018) 556, 703, 1011; Mikalson (2016) 59, 66, 136, 139, 207, 216; Papazarkadas (2011) 74, 80, 256
| 47. . . . upon the table the following: . . . 1 mast-head cup; mast-head cup(s?) . . . a mast-head cup(?) into which the olive oil . . . another mast-head cup; a drinking cup (5) . . . made of metal(?); a statuette . . . a canteen-flask; a box; an incense-censer . . . a small tripod; small shield(s?) . . . 2 large shields; a large cupping-glass with a chain attached; 1 strigil (10) with a chain attached; a large strigil; another one with a chain attached; 2 cupping-glasses; a drinking cup; a canteen- flask or small cup; a cooling vessel; a brooch; 4 crowns Uninscribed line The following objects made of iron: (15) a large ring with a chain attached; a large strigil; medical forceps; 5 surgeon’s knives and forceps; 2 tablets/platters . . . tongs; 3 medical forceps; 4 strigils; (20) a ring with a chain; a statuette and . . . throughout the sanctuary worked in low relief . . . Decree The People decided. Athenodoros proposed. Concerning what the priest of Asklepios, Euthydemos, says, the People (25) shall resolve: in order that the preliminary sacrifices (prothumata) may be offered which Euthydemos the priest of Asklepios recommends (exegetai), and the other sacrifices take place on behalf of the People of the Athenians, the People shall resolve: that the overseers (epistatas) of the Asklepieion shall make the preliminary sacrifices (prothumata) that Euthydemos recommends (exegetai), (30) with money from the quarry set aside for the god, and pay the other money towards the building of the sanctuary; and in order that the Athenians may distribute as much meat as possible, the religious officials (hieropoios) in office shall take care of the (35) festival with respect to what comes from the People (dēmo); and distribute the meat of the leading ox to the prytany members and to the nine archons and the religious officials and those participating in the procession, and distribute the other meat to the Athenians . . . text from Attic Inscriptions Online, IG II2
47 - Assembly decree concerning sacrifices in cult of Asklepios in Piraeus
1177. . . . the demarch in office at any time shall take care of the Thesmophorion together with the priestess, that no-one releases anything or gathers a thiasos or installs sacred objects (5) or performs purification rites or approaches the altars or the pit (megaron) without the priestess except when it is the festival of the Thesmophoria or the Plerosia or the Kalamaia (10) or the Skira or another day on which the women come together according to ancestral tradition; that the Piraeans shall resolve: if anyone does any of these things in contravention of these provisions, the demarch (15) shall impose a penalty and bring him before a law court under the laws that are in place with respect to these things; and concerning the gathering of wood in the sanctuaries, if anyone gathers wood, may the old laws (archaious nomous) (20) be valid, those that are in place with respect to these matters; and the boundary officers (horistas) shall inscribe this decree together with the demarch and stand it by the way up to the Thesmophorion. text from Attic Inscriptions Online, IG II2
1177 - Decree of deme Piraeus concerning the Thesmophorion '
1362. Gods. The priest of Apollo Erithaseos announces and forbids on behalf of himself and the demesmen and the Athenian People, (5) that in the sanctuary (hieron) of Apollo there be any cutting or carrying out of the sanctuary of wood (xula) or branches-with-leaves (kouron) or firewood (phrugana) or fallen leaves (phullobola); and if anyone is caught cutting or taking any of the forbidden items from the sanctuary (hierou), if the person caught is a slave, he will be flogged (10) with fifty lashes of the whip and the priest will hand him over, with the name of his master, to the king (basilei) and the Council in accordance with the decree of the Athenian Council and People; and if he is a free man, the priest, (15) together with the demarch, will fine him fifty drachmas and will hand over his name to the king (basilei) and the Council in accordance with the decree of the Athenian Council and People. text from Attic Inscriptions Online, IG II2
1362 - Priestly edict from Attica (Eupyridai?) '. None |
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9. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • archôn basileus • basileus
Found in books: Humphreys (2018) 713; Mikalson (2016) 82
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10. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • archon basileus • basileus, lessor of temene
Found in books: Mackil and Papazarkadas (2020) 303; Papazarkadas (2011) 68
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11. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • archon basileus • basileus, Athens
Found in books: Dignas (2002) 32; Lupu(2005) 39
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12. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • basileus • basileus, and Eleusinian cults • basileus, and Pelargikon • basileus, lessor of temene • basileus, paredroi of • basileus, patrioi thysiai performed by • prayers, by basileus
Found in books: Mikalson (2016) 59, 111, 136, 169, 296, 298, 299; Papazarkadas (2011) 34, 35, 36, 37, 41, 68, 80, 256
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13. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • archon basileus • archôn basileus • basileus • basileus, Royal Stoa • basileus, and Eleusinian cults • basileus, and Pelargikon • basileus, lessor of temene • basileus, paredroi of • basileus, wife of
Found in books: Dignas (2002) 32, 97; Humphreys (2018) 482, 555; Mikalson (2016) 115, 121, 218; Papazarkadas (2011) 23, 36, 53, 58, 63, 72, 73, 129, 139
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14. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • Kaunos, Basileus • Poseidon, Basileus • Theos, Basileus • Zeus, Basileus
Found in books: Lalone (2019) 156; Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022) 93
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15. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • archôn basileus • basileus
Found in books: Humphreys (2018) 555, 641; Mikalson (2016) 59, 167
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