Восток и Эллада

The Lelantine War, one of the earliest conflicts in ancient Greek history attested by sources, was fought on Euboea between Chalcis and Eretria – the two most prominent centers of the Greek world in the 8^th century BC. Several other Greek states participated in the conflict at various stages as allies of one side or the other. This article highlights two key observations. First, it reconstructs the specific causes of the war in connection with Eretria’s relocation to a new site.

In the earliest written source of the post-Mycenaean period, in the Homeric epics, one can find a number of words for those who are commonly denoted as kings. Some of them are encountered for the first time as proper names borrowed from Anatolian languages, while others were inherited from previous eras. The most common words in the Homeric epic are ἄναξ and βασιλεύς, which are of special interest to our topic, since they are inherited from the Bronze Age and reflect the most general, rather than local, tendencies in the development of the terminology of power.

This article examines some aspects of the administrative organization of Babylonian temples in the 1st millennium BC. The temple staff during this period included administrators, priests, temple slaves, and prebendaries. The latter were secular individuals who nonetheless formed an integral part of the religious cult. The article provides a detailed analysis of the types of Babylonian prebendaries and the role of barber-prebendaries in liturgical practice.