Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece

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by  Theodora Suk Fong Jim, Suk Fong Jim

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Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in
Ancient Greece
Theodora Suk Fong Jim
Print publication date: 2014
Print ISBN-13: 9780198706823
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2014
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198706823.001.0001
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Dedication
Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in
Ancient Greece
Theodora Suk Fong Jim
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Dedication
(p.v) For my family
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Preface
Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in
Ancient Greece
Theodora Suk Fong Jim
Print publication date: 2014
Print ISBN-13: 9780198706823
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2014
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198706823.001.0001
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The bulk of this work was undertaken during my doctoral studies at, and many
subsequent visits to, Oxford, where I met my supervisor Robert Parker, whose
wisdom, patience, and humanity are beyond what I ever expected from anyone.
Many pieces of his advice only made sense with hindsight, and I owe more to
him than to anyone else in my academic pursuits. I became interested in Greek
religion thanks to Barbara Kowalzig, whom I met while reading Ancient and
Modern History at University College, Oxford: she enthused me with her passion
for the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, and encouraged me to think that
the door to ancient Greece was also open to me. Jan Bremmer and Emily Kearns
examined the thesis; an anonymous reader reviewed it for OUP; and Scott
Scullion oversaw its revision into this monograph: I am grateful to them all for
their advice, comments, and challenges, even if we have not always agreed with
each other. Many people have made an impact along the way. In particular, I
would like to thank Catherine Holmes, Lisa Kallet, Alexander Murray, Oswyn
Murray, and Mary Whitby for their moral support and help in various ways. Peter
Fawcett, Vincent Gabrielsen, Paraskevi Martzavou, Alfonso Moreno, and Ian
Rutherford kindly discussed specific issues with me. Miscellaneous people have
kindly read and commented on parts of the manuscript at various stages of its
revision: I extend my thanks to them all.
For financial assistance I am deeply indebted to the Swire Educational Trust,
whose generous funds enabled me to undertake my undergraduate and
postgraduate studies at Oxford and to travel extensively in Greece. I thank also
the Society of Scholars in the Humanities and the Department of History at the
University of Hong Kong, where I was a research fellow from 2011–12 to 2012–
13. The British School at Athens and the Sackler Library at Oxford, with their
excellent research facilities and helpful staff, have always made my numerous
visits both productive and enjoyable. Above all, I thank my family for giving me
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the freedom to pursue what seemed a very remote dream, for putting up with my
extended periods of absence from home, and for all that they have given up over
the years.
S. F. Jim
July 2013
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List of Illustrations
Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in
Ancient Greece
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(p.x) (p.xi) List of Illustrations
Cover illustration: Mantiklos ‘Apollo’, bronze statuette (height: 20.3 cm)
from Thebes, Boeotia, Francis Barlett Donation of 1900, 03.997
(photograph © 2014 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
1. Antenor’s Kore, Athens, Acropolis Museum, no. 681 (photo: Hermann
Wagner; Deutsches Archäologisches Institut‐Athen‐Akropolis, neg. nr.
1674). 134
2. Pedestal for a water basin, Acropolis Museum, Athens, no. 607 (photo:
author, © Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture
and Sports, Archaeological Receipts Fund). 140
3. Bronze axe from Sant’Agata in Calabria, Italy, BM Bronze 252 (© The
Trustees of the British Museum). 146
4. Bronze disc, part of a cymbal, Athens, National Archaeological
Museum, X 17525 (photo: author, © Hellenic Ministry of Education and
Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports, Archaeological Receipts Fund). 159
5. Bronze vase, Athens, National Archaeological Museum, X 7336 (photo:
author, © Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture
and Sports, Archaeological Receipts Fund). 160
6. Athenian treasury in the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi (photo: author;
reproduced by permission of the First Ephorate of Prehistoric and
Classical Antiquities, © Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious
Affairs, Culture and Sports, Archaeological Receipts Fund). 183
7. The ‘Great Eleusinian Relief’, Athens, National Archaeological
Museum, no. 126 (photo: Gianis Patrikianos, © Hellenic Ministry of
Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports, Archaeological
Receipts Fund). 214
8. Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi (photo: author; reproduced by permission
of the First Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, © Hellenic
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Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports,
Archaeological Receipts Fund). 241
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Conventions and Abbreviations
Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in
Ancient Greece
Theodora Suk Fong Jim
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(p.xii) (p.xiii) Conventions and
Abbreviations
Abbreviations of periodicals follow those in the American Journal of Archaeology
(AJA) 95 (1991), 1–16 (as expanded at <http://www.ajaonline.org>),
supplemented by those in L’Année Philologique. Ancient authors and reference
works are referred to as in OCD4, and occasionally LSJ (1996), with a few
additions listed below. Epigraphical publications are abbreviated following LSJ
and Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, with additions as follows.
Translations of quoted texts are taken or adapted from a variety of existing
editions as indicated in the footnotes. Where no translator is stated, the
translations are my own, except for Theophrastus’ De Pietate, which follows the
translation in Fortenbaugh et al. (1992). The spelling of familiar Greek names is
Latinized following OCD4, whereas Greek personal names in dedicatory
inscriptions are Hellenized. All dates refer to BC unless otherwise indicated.
Agora
The Athenian Agora: Results of the Excavations Conducted by the
American School of Classical Studies in Athens (Princeton, 1953–).
Asylia
K. J. Rigsby, Asylia: Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World
(Berkeley; London, 1996).
ATL
B. D. Meritt, H. T. Wade‐Gery, and M. F. McGregor, The Athenian
Tribute Lists, 4 vols (Princeton, 1939–53).
Clara Rhodos
Clara Rhodos: Studi e materiali pubblicati a cura dell’Istituto storico‐
archeologico di Rodi, vols 1–10 (Rhodes, 1928–41).
FD
Fouilles de Delphes. École française d’Athènes (Paris, 1902–).
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Conventions and Abbreviations
I.Eleusis
K. Clinton, Eleusis: The Inscriptions on Stone, vols 1–2 (Athens, 2005–
8).
(p.xiv) IGASMG
R. Arena, Iscrizioni Greche Archaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia, 5
vols (Milan, 1989–98).
IGDOP
L. Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales d’Olbia du Pont (Geneva,
1996).
IosPE
B. Latyschev (ed.), Inscriptiones antiquae orae septentrionalis Ponti
Euxini Graecae et Latinae (Petropoli, 1885–1901).
K.–A.
R. Kassel and C. Austin (eds), Poetae Comici Graeci, 8 vols (Berlin,
1983–).
LSJ
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, and H. S. Jones (eds), A Greek–English
Lexicon, with a Revised Supplement (9th edn, Oxford, 1996).
McCabe, Chios Inscriptions
D. F. McCabe and J. V. Brownson, Chios Inscriptions: Texts and List
(Princeton, 1986).
McCabe, Didyma Inscriptions
D. F. McCabe, Didyma Inscriptions: Texts and List (Princeton, 1985).
McCabe, Halikarnassos Inscriptions
D. F. McCabe and J. V. Brownson, Halikarnassos Inscriptions: Texts
and List (Princeton, 1991).
McCabe, Miletos Inscriptions
D. F. McCabe and M. A. Plunkett, Miletos Inscriptions: Texts and List
(Princeton, 1984).
McCabe, Samos Inscriptions
D. F. McCabe, J. V. Brownson, and B. D. Erhman, Samos Inscriptions:
Texts and List (Princeton, 1986).
McCabe, Teos Inscriptions
D. F. McCabe and M. A. Plunkett, Teos Inscriptions: Texts and List
(Princeton, 1985).
ML
R. Meiggs and D. M. Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical
Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century B.C. (rev. edn, Oxford,
1989).
NGSL
E. Lupu, Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (2nd
edn, Leiden, 2009).
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Conventions and Abbreviations
S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth (eds), Oxford Classical Dictionary
(4th edn, Oxford, 2012).
PAA
J. S. Traill, Persons of Ancient Athens (Toronto, 1994–).
RO
P. J. Rhodes and R. Osborne, Greek Historical Inscriptions 404–323
BC (Oxford, 2003).
SEG
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (Leiden; Amsterdam, 1927–).
TAM II
E. Kalinka (ed.), Tituli Lyciae linguis Graeca et Latina conscripti, 3
fasc. (Vienna, 1920–44).
ThesCRA
Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum, 8 vols (Basel; Los Angeles,
2004–12).
Tit. Cal.
M. Segre, Tituli Calymnii, in ASAA NS 6–7 (Bergamo, 1944–5 [1952]).
Tit. Cam.
M. Segre and E. Pugliese Carratelli, Tituli Camirenses, in ASAA NS
11–13 (1949–51 [1952]), 141–318.
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