Proxeny
Proxeny or proxenia (
A proxenos would use whatever influence he had in his own city to promote policies of friendship or alliance with the city he voluntarily represented. For example,
Being another city's proxenos did not preclude taking part in war against that city, should it break out – since the proxenos' ultimate loyalty was to his own city. However, a proxenos would naturally try his best to prevent such a war and to resolve the differences that were threatening to cause it. And once peace negotiations were on the way, a proxenos' contacts and goodwill in the enemy city could be profitably used by his city.
The position of proxenos for a particular city was often hereditary in a particular family.
A 2024 study in the Journal of Economic History linked the presence of proxeny arrangements to increases in trade flows.[4]
See also
References
- ^ IGII2 141 Honours for Straton king of Sidon.
- ISBN 0-486-43762-0
- ISBN 0-415-12497-2
- ISSN 0022-0507.
Bibliography
- Monceaux, P., Les Proxénies Grecques (Paris, 1885).
- Walbank, M., Athenian Proxenies of the Fifth Century B.C. (Toronto, 1978).
- Marek, C., Die Proxenie (Frankfurt am Main, 1984) (Europäische Hochschulschriften: Reihe 3, Geschichte und ihre Hilfswissenschaften, 213).
- Gerolymatos, A., Espionage and Treason: A Study of the Proxeny in Political and Military Intelligence Gathering in Classical Greece (Amsterdam, 1986).
- Knoepfler, D., Décrets Érétrians de Proxénie et de Citoyenneté (Lausanne, 2001) (Eretria Fouilles et Researches, 11).
- Gastaldi, Enrica Culasso, Le prossenie ateniesi del IV secolo a.C.: gli onorati asiatici (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2004) (Fonti e studi di storia antica, 10).
- Encyclopædia Britannica
External links
- Media related to Proxenoi at Wikimedia Commons