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Last Updated on 10 Jul 2019

Author: Fabienne Marchand

CAPInv. 976: s[yn]thytai tam Mosaon Heisiodeioi (l. s[yn]thytai ton Mousaion Hesiodeioi)

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Central Greece
ii. Region Boiotia
iii. Site Thespiai

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) σ[υν]θύται τᾶμ Μωσάων Εἱσιοδεῖοι (I.Thespiai 65, ll. 3-6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) s[yn]thytai tam Mosaon Heisiodeioi (l. s[yn]thytai ton Mousaion Hesiodeioi)

III. DATE

i. Date(s) f. iii BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:Muses
Heroic:Hesiod
iii. Descriptive terms συνθύται, synthytai
Note synthytai: I.Thespiai 65, ll. 3-4

The synthytai are named after the poet Hesiod, and celebrate a cult to the Muses. Heisiodeion is masculine, and must be linked with the synthytai. It cannot be linked with the feminine Mosaon.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Thespiai 65 (f. iii BC)
Note Previous editions:
IG VII 1785
Roesch 1982: 127, no. 7, 164-6 (SEG 32: 426)
Online Resources I.Thespiai 65
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stone in the Boiotian dialect
i.c. Physical format(s) Black stone, now lost

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members συνθύται, synthytai

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

ii. Realty The horos (l. 1) marks the boundaries of the sacred lands owned by the synthytai.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities Veneri 1996: 80 suggests that the association may have been dedicated to the preservation and the diffusion of Hesiod's work.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction It has been suggested (Schachter 1986: 160-1; Veneri 1996: 80) that the Euthykles who dedicated the late 3rd-century BC metrical inscription IG VII 4240 (= I.Thespiai 274) to Helikon may have been a member of the association.

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Poland B 35
iii. Bibliography Beaulieu, M.-C. (2004), ‘L’héroïsation du poète Hésiode en Grèce ancienne’, Kernos 17: 103-17, esp. 112-3.
Clay, D. (2005), Archilochos Heros. The Cult of Poets in the Greek Polis. Washington: 136.
Roesch, P. (1982), Etudes béotiennes. Paris: 127, no. 7.
Schachter, A. (1986), Cults of Boiotia. London: 160-1.
Veneri, A. (1996), ‘L'Elicona nella cultura tespiese intorno al III sec. a. C.: la stele di Euthy[kl]es’, in A. Hurst and A. Schachter (eds.), La Montagne des Muses. Geneva: 73-86.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The use of the term synthytai points to a private association.