Athenian citizenship and honors
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
citizenship · honors · Athenians · bronze effigy · fellow-citizen · franchise · free board · golden crowns
spoken of as
1 expressionAthenian citizenship honors1 mention
Philip’s Letter (Greek)
and that on the death of Sitalces, on whom you did confer your citizenship, you should at once cultivate the friendship of his murderer, and pick a quarrel with us to shield Cersobleptes?
in the texts
Against Aristocrates
Athenian privileges and distinctions used to honor benefactors.
Or would you, in defiance of the decree, have given them your citizenship, and honored them as benefactors?
No doubt you remember, men of Athens, that Iphicrates was a very fortunate man, with his bronze effigy, his free board at the Town Hall, and other grants and distinctions.
and he makes light even of that act of grace which you bestowed your citizenship upon Charidemus.
Philip’s Letter
Athenian grants or assertions of citizenship to foreign rulers and descendants, criticized as politically opportunistic.
and that on the death of Sitalces, on whom you did confer your citizenship, you should at once cultivate the friendship of his murderer, and pick a quarrel with us to shield Cersobleptes?
On the contrary, I know that Teres fought with me against you, and that Cersobleptes was quite ready in private to take the oath of allegiance to my ambassadors, but was prevented by your generals, who denounced him as an enemy of the Athenians.
However, if I may mention two instances to the exclusion of the rest, you gave your citizenship to Evagoras of Cyprus and to Dionysius of Syracuse, to them and their descendants.