Judicial and Financial Administration in Late Hellenistic Athens: A New Decree of the Athenian Council

by Nikolaos Papazarkadas

Hesperia, Volume 86, Issue 2
Page(s): 325-357
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.86.2.0325
Year: 2017
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ABSTRACT:

This article offers the editio princeps of two Hellenistic decrees, one of them very fragmentary, recorded on a partially preserved marble stele found in Plaka in 2003. The second, and better-preserved, decree was passed by the Athenian Council in 103/2 B.C. It provides not only the first attestation of ἔμμηνοι δίκαι (“monthly suits”) in a late Hellenistic context, but also important new information on contemporary Athenian prosopography, ideology, and financial and judicial institutions.