Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World

Vincent Gabrielsen is Professor of Ancient History at the Saxo-Institute of the University of Copenhagen. He specialises in Greek and Hellenistic history and epigraphy and was Director of 'The Copenhagen Associations Project' and is now Director of 'The Rhodes Centennial Project'. Mario C.D. Paganini is a Postdoc Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is an ancient historian and papyrologist with a particular interest in the socio-cultural history of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt.

1. Associations' regulations from the ancient Greek world and beyond: an introduction V. Gabrielsen and M.C.D. Paganini; 2. Admission procedures and financial contributions in private associations: norms and deviations N. Giannakopoulos; 3. Regulations on absence and obligatory participation in ancient associations B. Eckhardt; 4. The place of purity: groups and associations, authority and sanctuaries J.-M. Carbon; 5. Associations and place: regulating meeting-places and sanctuaries S. Skaltsa; 6. Greek thorybos, Roman eustatheia. The normative universe of Athenian cult associations I. Arnaoutoglou; 7. Private affairs in a public domain: regulating behavioural code towards benefactresses and planning a strategy of social impact in Mantinean associations S. Zoumbaki; 8. A world full of associations: rules and community values in early Roman Egypt M. Langellotti; 9. Ordo corporatorum. The rules of Roman associations and the collegia at Ostia in the second and third centuries AD N. Tran; 10. Rules and regulations of associations – the Eurasian comparandum K.G. Ever; 11. Conclusion: associations in their world V. Gabrielsen and M.C.D. Paganini.