Cleruchic Land: Athens, Macedon, and the Hellenistic Kingdoms
Bresson Alain
This brief piece is an introduction to the dossier of four papers dedicated to the memory of Michael Rostovtzeff on the topic of cleruchy, which shows that not only the legal framework governing the settling of settler soldiers in the Hellenistic kingdoms was inherited from that of Macedon (which does not mean that it was everywhere the same) but also that there was a common Greek archetype to the cleruchic system, as suggested by the late Archaic statute of the Athenian cleruchy in Salamis.
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