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Author: Ilias Arnaoutoglou

CAPInv. GR-19: orgeones

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Attica with Salamis
ii. Region Attica
iii. Site Athens

II. GENERAL REFERENCE

i.a. Full reference (original language) ὀργεῶνες (FGrHist 341 (Seleukos). frg. F1)
i.b. Full reference (transliterated) orgeones
ii. Reference context A fragment from Seleukos' commentary on Solon's axones explains the meaning of the term orgeones as those honouring gods or heroes.

III. DATE

i. Date(s) vi (?) BC

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) FGrHist 341 (Seleukos). frg. F1 (vi (?) BC)
Note Other publications: Ruschenbusch 1966: frg. 77; Ruschenbusch and Burgmann 2010: frg. 76b
i.a. Source type(s) Literary source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Hellenistic commentary on Solon's axones, in Greek.

VIII. NOTES

i. Comments The passage would have us to believe that the word orgeones occured in the Solonian axones; however, we do not know anything about its context.
iii. Bibliography Arnaoutoglou, I. (2003), Thusias heneka kai sunousias. Private religious associations in Hellenistic Athens. Athens: 54-5.
Ferguson, W. (1944), ‘The Attic orgeones’, HThR 37: 61-140, esp. 62-4.
Ismard, P. (2010), La cité des réseaux. Athènes et ses associations VIe – Ier siècle av. J.-C.. Paris: 46.
Lambert, S. (1993) The phratries of Attica. Ann Arbor, Michigan: 250.
Ustinova, Y. (1996), ‘Orgeones in phratries: a mechanism of social integration in Attica’, Kernos 6: 229.

IX. EVALUATION

i. Private associations Probable
Note Orgeones are on record as private cult associations since the second half of the 4th century BC.
ii. Historical authenticity There is no reason to doubt the authenticity of the fragment.