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Last Updated on 12 Jul 2019

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. GR-80: hoi thiasoi (pantes)

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Ionia
iii. Site Teos

II. GENERAL REFERENCE

i.a. Full reference (original language) οἱ θίασοι (πάντες) (SEG 2: 604, l. 7; SEG 2: 610, ll. 2.1-2; CIG 3101, ll. 2.1-2; CIG 3112, ll. 1.7-8; BCH 49: 312-3, no. 14, ll. 1.1-3 )
i.b. Full reference (transliterated) hoi thiasoi (pantes)
ii. Reference context Funerary inscriptions

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 250 (?) - 30 (?) BC

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) SEG 2: 604 (250 (?) - 30 (?) BC)
SEG 2: 610 (250 (?) - 30 (?) BC)
CIG 3101 (250 (?) - 30 (?) BC)
CIG 3112 (250 (?) - 30 (?) BC)
BCH 37: 193, no. 18 (250 (?) - 30 (?) BC)
BCH 49: 312-3, no. 14 (250 (?) - 30 (?) BC)
Online Resources SEG 2: 604
SEG 2: 610
BCH 49: 312-3, no. 14
CIG 3101
CIG 3112
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary inscriptions. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s)

VIII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Boulay, Th. (2013), ‘Les « groupes de référence » au sein du corps civique de Téos’, in P. Fröhlich, and P. Hamon (eds.), Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. – IIe siècle apr. J.-C.), Genève: 251-75.

IX. EVALUATION

i. Private associations Possible
Note Several inscriptions from Teos mention “(all) the thiasoi” as commemorators of deceased persons, often in conjunction with other, public bodies (the Ephebes, the neoi, the gerousia, the demos). SEG 2: 604 is special because here, the thiasoi issue a regulation for a grave that includes fines to be paid to the gerousia. All this points to the closeness of thiasoi and civic institutions in Teos (cf. in general Boulay 2013: 256-7). The question remains if the thiasoi were actually part of the institutional apparatus of the city, or if they just joined the official bodies on certain occasions. It is also not clear how the thiasoi interacted. Some insights are offered by BCH 4: 164, no. 21, where three associations are under the leadership of the same man, whose brother is the leader of a board of magistrates. Apparently, members of the local elite were responsible for establishing and maintaining a network of groups capable of collective action, some of them clearly official, others somewhere in between public and private.
ii. Historical authenticity Certain