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30
Years
1550 BCE to 2023
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Greece and Rome, Probate and trust law, Ghosts and legends, Land and wealth transfer
Updated
30 October 2026
AI illustration: The overgrown Tatoi Palace in the forest north of Athens2023 · Athens, GreeceGreece took its exiled king's palaces without payment, and the European Court ordered €13.7 million in compensationConstantine II became King of the Hellenes in 1964. After a failed counter-coup against the military junta in December 1967 he left for Rome.Wikipedia (English)1910-1920 Gumurdjina Komotini Thrace: Historical photo (post-card + greek text) of Komotini2008 · Komotini, Western Thrace, GreeceA Greek Muslim left everything to his wife by notarial will, his sisters invoked sharia, and Greek courts cut her to a quarterChatitze Molla Sali, born in 1950, lives in Komotini. Her husband, a Greek citizen of the Muslim minority of Thrace, made a will before a notary under the Greek Civil Code and left her his entire estate.echrcaselaw.com and 3 moreAli Pasha of Yanina: Portrait of Ali Pasha1822 · Pandeleimon Monastery, IoanninaThe Ottoman state killed Ali Pasha of Ioannina in 1822 and confiscated more than 950 farmsAli Pasha ruled Ioannina and much of Epirus for decades. The Ottoman government declared him a rebel in 1820.islamansiklopedisi.org.tr and 2 moreCementry-Salonika: A rabbi makes a traditional visit to the cemetery. Salonica1942 · Thessaloniki, GreeceThessaloniki destroyed its 450-year-old Jewish cemetery in December 1942, used the stones to build, and put a university on the landSephardic Jews expelled from Spain founded the Jewish cemetery of Salonica in the late 15th century. It covered about 350,000 square metres. The city had planned since the 1917 fire to expropriate it.theworld.org and 2 moreLord Byron: Portrait of Lord Byron, British poet (1788–1824)label QS:Len,"Portrait of Lord Byron, British poet (1788–1824)"1824 · Missolonghi, GreeceByron's friends tore up and burned his memoirs in his publisher's fireplace four weeks after he diedByron wrote his memoirs and gave the manuscript to his friend the poet Thomas Moore, to be published after his death. Moore sold it to the publisher John Murray II.amdigital.co.uk and 3 moreOdysseus slays the suitors of his wife Penelope (Skyphos pot): Scanned B&W Images. Both vessels are fully scanned and include an Attic red-figure skyphos ca. 440 BCE from TarquLegend · 1180 BCE · Ithaca, GreeceThe Odyssey says 108 suitors ate through Odysseus's estate while he was away, and planned to kill his son and divide his propertyThe Odyssey, composed around the 8th or 7th century BC and attributed to Homer, tells what happened to a king's property when he did not come home. Odysseus spent ten years at Troy and about ten more getting back.Project Gutenberg and 2 moreHerodes Atticus: Herodes Atticus - bust - Athens Museum177 · Marathon and Athens, GreeceHerodes Atticus paid out his father's legacy to Athens by deducting debts, gave his son only his mother's property, and the Athenians took his body from MarathonPhilostratus says Herodes's grandfather Hipparchus lost his estate on a charge of aiming at tyranny. Herodes's father Atticus found a great hoard in a house he owned near the theatre in Athens.Internet Archive and 2 more2017-08-03 August 2017 in Athens 51: August 2017 in Athens177 · Athens and Marathon, GreeceA father found a treasure in his Athens house and willed every citizen a mina a year; his son paid it by collecting their grandfathers' debtsPhilostratus writes that the emperor confiscated the estate of Hipparchus, grandfather of Herodes Atticus, on a charge of aiming at tyranny. His son Atticus was left poor.Internet Archive and 2 morePliny the Younger - Como - Duomo - 4: Statue of Plinius Minor on the Duomo (Como)100 · Athens, GreecePliny tells of an Athens house let cheap because of its ghost; the philosopher who took it found a chained skeleton in the yardKind 2: what Pliny writes in letter 7.27, told "just as I heard it". A large house in Athens had a bad name. At night tenants heard chains, then saw the ghost of a thin old man in fetters.Project Gutenberg and 2 moreKings Agis and Cleomenes: Engraving which accompanied Plutarch's Lives of Agis IV and Cleomenes III, in volume 4 of the John Dryden edition published 1711. The speech scroll in the241 BCE · Sparta, Laconia, GreeceSpartan king Agis IV gave his estate and 600 talents to a land division, and was strangled with his mother and grandmother before any land was dividedPlutarch says an ephor named Epitadeus, angry with his son, passed a law that let a man give or bequeath his estate to anyone he chose. Land gathered into a few hands.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 moreEpicurus: Epikouros BM 1843270 BCE · Athens, GreeceEpicurus willed his Garden to his school for ever, and two centuries later a Roman exile owned the ruins of his house and planned to pull it downEpicurus died at Athens in 271 or 270 BC, aged 72, after a fortnight's illness from kidney stones. Hermippus says he sat in a warm bronze bath, drank unmixed wine and told his friends to remember his teachings.Wikisource (primary text) and 2 moreMap of Greece, marked on the globe287 BCE · Athens, GreeceTheophrastus left the Lyceum garden to ten men in common, Athens briefly banned unlicensed schools on pain of death, and Sulla's army wrecked the siteTheophrastus succeeded Aristotle at the Lyceum and lectured to about 2,000 pupils. After Aristotle's death he obtained a garden of his own through his friend Demetrius of Phalerum, governor of Athens.Wikisource (primary text) and 3 moreFrench: Les Restes de Phocion title QS:P1476,fr:"Les Restes de Phocion "label QS:Lfr,"Les Restes de Phocion ": Esquisse de Charles Meynier pour le tableau "Les Cendres de Phocion" 318 BCE · Athens, Greece; burned beyond Eleusis near Megara, GreeceAthens executed Phocion at about 80, banned his burial in Attica, and Plutarch says his wife buried his bones under her hearthPhocion was an Athenian general in his eighties when the restored democracy condemned him. Nepos says he was sentenced to death without being allowed to plead.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 2 moreAlexander Pope: Alexander Pope title QS:P1476,en:"Alexander Pope "label QS:Len,"Alexander Pope "335 BCE · Thebes (Thiva), GreeceAlexander razed Thebes and sold its people into slavery, but spared the house and descendants of the poet PindarPindar was a lyric poet of Thebes. In 335 BC Thebes revolted against Alexander. Alexander stormed the city. Plutarch says more than 6,000 Thebans were killed and more than 30,000 sold as slaves.livingpoets.awh.durham.ac.uk and 2 moreDemosthenes orator Louvre: Bust of the Greek orator Demosthenes. Marble, Roman artwork, inspired from a bronze statue by Polyeuctos (ca. 280 BC). Found in Italy.345 BCE · Piraeus, Athens, GreeceA merchant died owing money on a Black Sea wine voyage, and his brother, a pupil of Isocrates, told the Athenian court he was not the heirA speech in the works of Demosthenes, Against Lacritus, preserves a loan contract. Androcles of Sphettus and Nausicrates of Carystus lent 3,000 drachmas to Artemo and Apollodorus of Phaselis for a round trip to the Black Sea.cases.som.yale.edu and 3 morePlato: Plato Silanion Musei Capitolini MC1377347 BCE · Athens, GreecePlato's will left two farms and three minae to a boy, the Academy went to his nephew, and the nephew was carried to class paralysed until he took his own lifePlato died in 347 BC and was buried in the Academy. Diogenes Laertius preserves his will. He left an estate at Iphistiadae, which "may not be sold or alienated," to the boy Adeimantus, and a second estate at Eiresidae.Wikisource (primary text) and 3 moreAGMA Kleroterion: Kleroterion. This device was used for the jury selection system in Athens. Bronze identification tickets were inserted to indicate eligible jurors who were also d350 BCE · Athens, GreeceClaimants to Hagnias's estate in Athens produced a forged will, lost, and then took the estate by three or four votesTwo courtroom speeches tell this fight: Isaeus 11, On the Estate of Hagnias, and the speech Against Macartatus preserved among the works of Demosthenes.cts.perseids.org and 2 moreMap of Greece, marked on the globe370 BCE · Athens and Piraeus, GreeceThe freed-slave banker Pasion willed his widow and his bank to his own freed slave Phormio; his son Apollodorus sued and was finedPasion had been the slave of Archestratus and became a banker. A speech written for his successor says Pasion held about twenty talents in real property and more than fifty talents lent at interest.perseus.tufts.edu and 5 moreDemosthenes: Demostheneslabel QS:Lfr,"Démosthène"label QS:Len,"Demosthenes"376 BCE · Athens, GreeceDemosthenes's guardians handed back the house, 14 slaves and 30 minae of a 14-talent estate, and he sued them at 20The orator Demosthenes was seven when his father died. Plutarch says the father was called the Cutler because he owned a large workshop of skilled slaves.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 3 morePiraeus: Piraeus állomás376 BCE · Athens and Piraeus, GreeceA 96-year-old Athenian moved into his brothel, tried to make a former prostitute's son his heir, and lay dead for two days while his house was emptiedThe source is a speech written for one side of an Athenian lawsuit. Euctemon lived to 96 and was rich enough for his family to pay for costly public offices.perseus.tufts.edu and 3 moreMap of Greece, marked on the globe404 BCE · Athens and Piraeus, GreeceAthens's Thirty Tyrants arrested rich foreign residents for their money, took Polemarchus's 700 shields and 120 slaves, and made him drink hemlockCephalus of Syracuse settled in Athens at Pericles's invitation. His sons Polemarchus and Lysias were metics, free foreigners without citizenship, and ran a shield factory in the Piraeus with 120 slaves.perseus.tufts.edu and 6 moreSophocles: Sophocles pushkin406 BCE · Athens, GreeceCicero says Sophocles' son sued to take his estate on the ground that he was senile, and Sophocles read his new play to the courtSophocles kept writing tragedies into his nineties. Cicero says his sons took him to court and asked the judges to remove his control of the family property because he was neglecting it through dementia.livingpoets.awh.durham.ac.uk and 3 moreNicias: Nicias, p 105 (World's Famous Orations Vol 1)413 BCE · Syracuse, Sicily, Italy; Athens, GreeceNicias rented 1,000 slaves into Athens's silver mines, Syracuse executed him, the Thirty killed his son, and his nephew went to court to keep the family landNicias son of Niceratus inherited a large fortune and was one of the largest lessees at the Laurion silver mines south of Athens.perseus.tufts.edu and 5 moreBust Alcibiades Musei Capitolini MC1160: So-called “Alcibiades”, ideal male portrait. Roman copy after a Greek original of the Late Classical period; the hermaic pillar and the ins415 BCE · Athens, GreeceAthens condemned Alcibiades, auctioned his property item by item on marble slabs, ordered priests to curse him, then gave the property backIn 415 BC, as Athens sent its fleet against Sicily, the city's herms were mutilated, and men were accused of profaning the Mysteries of Eleusis. Alcibiades, a general of the expedition, was accused.perseus.tufts.edu and 5 moreCHURCH(1893) p115 THEMISTOCLES: CHURCH(1893) p115 THEMISTOCLES459 BCE · Magnesia on the Maeander, Turkey; Attica, GreeceAthens condemned Themistocles for treason, Persia gave him three cities, and his relatives buried his bones in Attica in secretThemistocles led the Athenian fleet at Salamis. He was later ostracised, and Athens turned the ostracism into a death sentence for treason when Sparta accused him of dealing with Persia. He fled and settled in the Persian empire.Project Gutenberg and 2 morePeriander Pio-Clementino Inv276: Bust of Periander bearing the inscription “Periander, son of Cypselus, Corinthian”. Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from the 4th century.587 BCE · Corinth, Greece; Corcyra (Corfu), GreeceHerodotus says Periander killed his wife, lost his heir over it, and stripped the women of Corinth to get her ghost to say where a deposit wasKind 2: what Herodotus says, written about 150 years later. Periander ruled Corinth from about 627 to 587 BC after his father Cypselus. He killed his wife Melissa.Project Gutenberg and 2 moreSolon: Ignoto, c.d. solone, replica del 90 dc ca da orig. greco del 110 ac. ca, 6143594 BCE · Athens, GreecePlutarch says Solon's friends borrowed to buy estates before his debt cancellation, and Solon cleared his name by writing off five talents owed to himBefore Solon, poor Athenian farmers borrowed on the security of their own bodies. Debtors who defaulted could be enslaved, and some were sold abroad. Marker stones called horoi stood on the land of those in debt.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 3 moreReconstruction of face from the Grave Circle B, AM Mycenae, 090994: Reconstructions of faces from the Mycenaean Grave Circle B. Arachaeological Museum of Mycenae. Skull Zeta 59 fro1550 BCE · Grave Circle B, Mycenae, Argolis, GreeceDNA showed a woman in Mycenae's royal Grave Circle B was buried beside her brother, by right of birth, not as a wifeGrave Circle B at Mycenae was used from about 1675 to 1550 BC and overlaps the more famous Grave Circle A by about 50 years. Its 35 burials held weapons, pottery, gold ornaments and an electrum face mask.manchester.ac.uk and 2 moreAntigone Gives Token Burial to the Body of Her Brother Polyniceslabel QS:Len,"Antigone Gives Token Burial to the Body of: Drawing; DrawingsLegend · 1250 BCE · Thebes (Thiva), GreeceThe plays say Oedipus's sons agreed to rule Thebes in alternate years, then killed each other, and the new king forbade burial of one of themThe tradition says that after Oedipus left Thebes, his sons Eteocles and Polynices divided the kingdom by time. The mythographer Apollodorus records that they agreed "that each should rule alternately" for a year.classics.mit.edu and 2 moreThemis Aigeus Antikensammlung Berlin F2538: Themis and Aegeus. Attic red-figure kylix, 440–430 BC. From Vulci.Legend · 1250 BCE · Athens, GreeceTheseus forgot to change his black sail, his father Aegeus threw himself down from the Acropolis, and Theseus became king of AthensGreek tradition, as Plutarch tells it, says King Aegeus of Athens had no recognised son, and his brother Pallas's fifty sons expected the throne.University of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 3 more