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In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable." Asylia was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon--mainly inscriptions and coins--is scattered in the published record. The material has never been collected and presented in one publication until now.

Kent J. Rigsby lays out these documents and discusses their historical implications in a substantial introduction. He argues that while a hopeful intention of...

The first of five volumes planned of the inscriptions from the island of Kos, as well as the neighbouring islands Kalymnos, Leros, Lepsia and Patmos, contains the 423 decrees and religious inscriptions from the island of Kos, from the foundation of the city of the same name in 366 BC to the end of the Roman Empire.