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Decreto ateniese per la fondazione di Brea

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Abstract

This Athenian decree, probably issued under Pericles’ rule in 446/5 BC or soon thereafter (in the thirties of the fifth century BC), testifies to the foundation of the colony (apoikia) in Brea. The decree contains practical provisions for the foundation: the appointment of an oikist and a few apoikistai, ten geonomoi for the distribution of land, an episkopos to inspect that the Athenian money is properly employed. Symbolic and religious connection to the motherland is ensured by the obligation to send tributes for the Great Panathenaia and Dionysia. Thucydides (following Bergk’s emendation), Cratinus (sometimes corrected in Craterus) and Theopompus testify to the existence of Brea and concur to the localisation of this Athenian colony in the Chalkidike peninsula, north of Potidaea, on the east coast of the Thermaic Gulf.

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Author(s): Matijasic I, Campigotto MH

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Axon

Year: 2018

Volume: 2

Issue: 2

Pages: 69-82

Online publication date: 02/12/2018

Acceptance date: 25/09/2018

Date deposited: 11/02/2019

ISSN (electronic): 2532-6848

Publisher: Edizioni Ca' Foscari

URL: https://doi.org/10.30687/Axon/2532-6848/2018/02/004

DOI: 10.30687/Axon/2532-6848/2018/02/004

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