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Author: Ilias Arnaoutoglou

CAPInv. GR-22: orgeon (l. orgeones)

I. LOCATION

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

II. GENERAL REFERENCE

i.a. Full reference (original language) ὀργέων (Lys. Fr. 58 = Peri Theopompou klerou)
i.b. Full reference (transliterated) orgeon (l. orgeones)
ii. Reference context It is preserved in an entry in Harpoer, Lexicon in decem oratores, s.v. ὀργέων, orgeon, repeated by later lexicographers.

III. DATE

i. Date(s) f. iv BC

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Lys. Fr. 58 = Peri Theopompou klerou (f. iv BC)
Note The passage is repeated in Hsch. ο. 1111 and Sud. ο. 509.
i.a. Source type(s) Literary source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Oratory, in Greek.

VIII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Arnaoutoglou, I. (2003), Thusias heneka kai sunousias. Private religious associations in Hellenistic Athens. Athens: 34.
Ferguson, W. (1944), ‘The Attic orgeones’, HThR 37: 61-140, esp. 84, n. 29.

IX. EVALUATION

i. Private associations Probable
Note It is probable that these were associations in light of similar testimonies in Is. 2.14-17, 45 (Menecles: CAPInv. GR.-13).
ii. Historical authenticity There is no reason to doubt about the genuiness of the scholion in Harpokration.