Endowments and Taxation in the Hellenistic World
Abstract
This 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.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/9255Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.2143/AS.44.0.3044799Publication Info
(2014). Endowments and Taxation in the Hellenistic World. Ancient Society, 44. pp. 43-89. 10.2143/AS.44.0.3044799. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/9255.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Joshua D. Sosin
Associate Professor of Classical Studies
One of the things that I like best about Classics is the wide range of intellectual
opportunities it offers. As an undergraduate I was interested in early Christianity
and Latin love elegy, which are about as far from my current work as you can get!
But our discipline is built for roaming and many of its earliest greats would not
fit neatly into the boxes that we use today.
My current scholarship bulks in
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