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Citizenship for sale?: Grants of politeia for money: a reappraisal by Sviatoslav Dmitriev is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Citizenship for sale?: Grants of politeia for money: a reappraisal about?
Reexamining inscriptional and literary sources on grants of politeia by ancient Greek cities in exchange for money allows us to rethink the commonly accepted interpretation of these grants as the sale of citizenship. This article argues that such grants actually reciprocated benefactions that involved a financial expenditure in the interests of the city. These grants could be interpreted as a sale of politeia, similar to today's grants of citizenship offered by many countries in return for investments. However, like these modern gifts of citizenship, the grants in ancient Greece reflected a basic norm that politeia could only be conferred on benefactors.
Who reads Citizenship for sale?: Grants of politeia for money: a reappraisal?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.
- Author
- Sviatoslav Dmitriev
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)