Parerga III: The Genesia, Basile and Epops again

Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik

Volumn 139, Issue , 2002, Pages 75-82

  Lambert, Stephen D ^a,b  

^a British School   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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References (6)

1. A. Hollis, Epops in the Erchian Sacred Calendar and the Aetia of Callimachus, in ed. E. M. Craik, Owls to Athens . . . Essays . . . Dover (Oxford, 1990), 127-30
2. and Attica in Hellenistic Poetry, ZPE 93 (1992), 11-13
3. F. Bourriot, Recherches sur la nature du génos (Lille, 1976), 1126-34 and Georgoudi, 80-84, correctly reject the theory of Jacoby, that the Genesia had to do specifically with the gene and that a democratising Solon, in instituting a state Genesia, was making available to all what had been a ritual specific to aristocratic families
4. N. Fisher, Aeschines, Against Timarchos (Oxford, 2001), 343-46
5. H.A. Shapiro, ZPE 63 (1986), 134-36
6. M. H. Jameson, in edd. I. Morris and K. Raaflaub, Democracy 2500 Questions and Challenges (AIA Colloquia and Conference Papers, 1997), 171-95 at 193, correctly points out that it is not sure whether this calendar is the product of the deme Thorikos or of a larger regional grouping. Even if the entity responsible for the calendar was "Thorikos", one of the most venerable of ancient Attic poleis, that would not necessarily equate it with the Cleisthenic deme (cf. above n. 16)