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Alexander the Great and the polis of Iasus: Salt and Democracy? Notes on the ‚Little Sea’ Inscription (IIasos 24 + 30) and the Ekklesiastikon Decree (IIasos 20)

Published/Copyright: December 2, 2011
Klio
From the journal Klio Volume 93 Issue 2

Abstract

The restoration (apodosis) of the so-called ‚Little Sea’ to Iasus, acted by Alexander the Great and known thanks to the decree IIasos 24 + 30 is herein examined and dated to the final years of the reign of the Macedon, when the Hecatomnid princess Ada was replaced by the new satrap, the Macedonian Philoxenus (326/4–323 BCE). The area, traditionally considered as a sort of vast fishing-ground, is reinterpreted from a new economic viewpoint, as an important site of salt pans and pasturages on regional scale. The apodosis may have produced, therefore, high revenues for the city, perhaps to be used in part (but there is complete uncertainty about this) for the ekklesiastikon payment described in IIasos 20. This event could be interpreted as one of the most relevant expressions of the king’s interest for the autonomia of the Greeks in the coastal area of north-western Caria.

Keywords: Asia Minor; Alexander der Große; Iasus; Epigraphie; Ökonomie
Published Online: 2011-12-02
Published in Print: 2011-12

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https://doi.org/10.1524/klio.2011.0017
Keywords for this article
Asia Minor; Alexander der Große; Iasus; Epigraphie; Ökonomie

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Aristotele, Teopompo e la politica macedone
  2. La maschera del vincitore. Strategie propagandistiche di Filippo II e Alessandro Magno nella distruzione di città greche
  3. Alexander the Great and the polis of Iasus: Salt and Democracy? Notes on the ‚Little Sea’ Inscription (IIasos 24 + 30) and the Ekklesiastikon Decree (IIasos 20)
  4. Ländliches Leben im tunesischen Hinterland der hellenistischen Zeit
  5. Der Artemidorpapyrus (P.Artemid.) im Spiegel der Forschung
  6. Poetry and Roman technical writing: agriculture, architecture, tactics
  7. L. Tarquinius magister equitum (458 a. C.)
  8. Die Gründung und Teilung der Provinz Germania
  9. Ein angeblicher Meilenstein in Novae (Moesia Inferior) und der Kult des Deus Aeternus
  10. Kein Aberglaube in Hispellum
  11. Das „sasanidische Kronengesetz“: Entstehung und Entwicklung eines modernen Konstrukts. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Deutung des Reliefs Narses in Naqsh-i Rustam
  12. Literaturkritik
  13. Literaturanzeigen. Liste der eingegangenen Literatur
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