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Item Open Access A Metic was a Metic(HISTORIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ALTE GESCHICHTE, 2016) Sosin, JDItem Open Access A missing woman: the Hellenistic leases from Thespiae revisited(GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES, 2000) Sosin, JDItem Open Access Accounting and Endowments(Tyche: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik., 2001) Sosin, JDItem Open Access Acraephia Counts: Π for Π(ΕΤΤΑΡΕΣ)(Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 2004) Sosin, JDItem Open Access Alexanders and Stephanephoroi at Delphi(Classical Philology, 2004-07-01) Sosin, JDItem Open Access Death on a road (Dem. 23.53)(Historia - Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte, 2016-01-01) Sosin, JDScholarly consensus holds that a law quoted in Demosthenes (23.53) permitted one to kill a highway robber who had lain in ambush and attacked one on a road. But the relevant phrase says nothing explicit about ambush. Modern interpretation derives from Harpocration and other ancient authorities. It is argued here that they were mistaken and that the phrase referred to those who inadvertently killed a fellow traveler while overtaking on a road.' The new interpretation may offer another way to think about the encounter between Oedipus and Laius.Item Open Access Endowed Eponymous Festivals on Delos(Kernos: revue internationale et pluridisciplinaire de religion grecque antique) Sosin, JDSecond-century BC Delos saw the creation of more than two dozen endowments, by men and women, Delians and aliens, and, most famously, Hellenistic royalty or their agents. Scholars agree that these underwrote festivals (mostly eponymous: The Antigoneia, Eutycheia, Philonideia, Ptolemaieia, Stesileia, etc.), and have focused on the political motivation, purpose, and effects of the dozen or so royal specimens. This paper suggests that we have misconstrued the Greek of the Delian accounts; that the endowments did not fund eponymous festivals per se, but modest recurring ritual that was established on the occasion of significant family events, especially marriage and death; that this peculiar Delian phenomenon has more to say about authentic piety than grand politics, and more in common with Hellenistic family cult than festival culture.Item Open Access Endowed Eponymous Festivals on Delos(Kernos: revue internationale et pluridisciplinaire de religion grecque antique) Sosin, JDSecond-century BC Delos saw the creation of more than two dozen endowments, by men and women, Delians and aliens, and, most famously, Hellenistic royalty or their agents. Scholars agree that these underwrote festivals (mostly eponymous: The Antigoneia, Eutycheia, Philonideia, Ptolemaieia, Stesileia, etc.), and have focused on the political motivation, purpose, and effects of the dozen or so royal specimens. This paper suggests that we have misconstrued the Greek of the Delian accounts; that the endowments did not fund eponymous festivals per se, but modest recurring ritual that was established on the occasion of significant family events, especially marriage and death; that this peculiar Delian phenomenon has more to say about authentic piety than grand politics, and more in common with Hellenistic family cult than festival culture.Item Open Access Endowments and Taxation in the Hellenistic World(Ancient Society, 2014) Sosin, JDThis paper suggests that a number of well known Hellenistic endowments were crafted in such a way that, in addition to the pious purposes that they served, they also allowed founders and elite peers to limit tax-liability by sheltering real estate from the possibility of assessment for taxation.Item Open Access Exempt from tribute (Publication of Greek papyrus document 'P.Aust.inv. 32' concerning allocation of land labeled chersos (kai) aphorologetos)(GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES, 2001) Sosin, JDItem Open Access Four Papyri concerning Pesouris, Basilikos Grammateus(Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 2002) Sosin, JD; Bauschatz, JohnItem Open Access Grain for Andros(Hermes - Zeitschrift fur Klassische Philologie, 2002-12-01) Sosin, JDItem Open Access Magnesian inviolability(Transactions of the American Philological Association, 2009-09-01) Sosin, JDIn 221/20 the citizens of Magnesia on the Maeander sought to create crowned games in honor of Artemis Leukophryene. The goddess had appeared to them and Delphi instructed that "it is more agreeable and better for those who revere Apollo Pythios and Artemis Leukophryene and treat the city and territory of the Magnesians on the Maeander as sacred and inviolable." But why it took Magnesia more than a decade to secure asylia and inaugurate the enhanced games has remained a puzzle. It has been thought since Kern (1901) that the Magnesians first attempted to win acceptance of inviolability and the games in 221/20, that their invitations were almost universally snubbed, and that the city did not succeed in securing international recognition until 208/7. This paper argues that there was no failed campaign of invitations in 221, that Magnesia did not canvass the Greek world until 208/7.Item Open Access Manumission with Paramone: Conditional Freedom?(TAPA, 2016) Sosin, JDA common view holds that slaves freed on condition of paramone were juridical halfings, legally half-free, half-slave. This paper argues that this view is based on a misunderstanding of the Greek sources, mainly epigraphic; that the intermediate or hybrid juridical state of conditional freedom is a modern invention; that the evidence for manumission in the Greek world suggests overwhelmingly that polities constructed liberty and slavery as a binary pair, rather than poles on a spectrum.Item Open Access Notes on Inscriptions(Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 2013) Sosin, JDItem Open Access Notes on Inscriptions(Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 2014) Sosin, JDItem Open Access Palaeography and Bilingualism: P.Duk.inv. 320 and 675(Chronique d’Égypte, 2003) Sosin, JD; Manning, JoeItem Open Access Ransom at Athens ([Dem.] 53.11)(Historia: Zeitschrift fuer Alte Geschichte) Sosin, JD“The laws even command that he who is ransomed belongs to the one who ransomed him from the enemy, if he does not pay the ransom” ([Dem] 53.11). This is widely regarded as an exception to Solon’ s law against enslavement for debt. Harris has made a strong case that the law cited by Apollodoros’ opponent did not concern debt-slavery. This paper suggests, furthermore, that the law did not apply to him and his situation at all; that we have misunderstood what this law “commands;” that ransom was a more varied process than scholars have allowed; and that the law on ransom, so often thought to have been an exception to the ban on debt-slavery, may in fact have been essential to the broader objective of which the ban was part.Item Open Access Tax exemption and Athenian imperial politics: The case of Chalkis(Transactions of the American Philological Association, 2014-01-01) Sosin, JDThis paper argues that the clause at IG I 3 40.52-57, which refers to taxation of aliens at Chalkis and has long puzzled scholars, stipulated that any non-Chalkidian who had been granted immunity from Athenian tele, conditional on residence at Athens or not, should enjoy the same immunity from Chalkidian tele at Chalkis; that the inscription belongs to 424/3 b.c.e, when Athenian law and honorifc practice were much concerned with taxation and immunities. Though long seen as fscal punishment by a newly imperial Athens, the action was connected to later debates about local honors and domestic taxation, and was rather mild.Item Open Access "THOSE WHO LIVE APART" WERE MERCENARIES(HISTORIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ALTE GESCHICHTE, 2015) Sosin, JD