Includes bibliographical references and index

Associations' regulations from the ancient Greek world and beyond: an Introduction / Vincent Gabrielsen and Mario C. D. Paganini -- Admission procedures and financial contributions in private associations: norms and deviations / Nikolaos Giannakopoulos -- Regulations on absence and obligatory participation in ancient associations / Benedikt Eckhardt -- The place of purity: groups and associations, authority and sanctuaries / Jan-Mathieu Carbon -- Associations and place: regulating meeting-places and sanctuaries / Stella Skaltsa -- Greek thorybos, Roman eustatheia: the normative universe of Athenian cult associations / Ilias Arnaoutoglou -- Private affairs in a public domain: regulating behavioural code towards benefactresses and planning a strategy of social impact in Mantinean associations / Sophia Zoumbaki -- A world full of associations: rules and community values in early Roman Egypt / Micaela Langellotti -- Ordo corporatorum: the rules of Roman associations and the collegia at Ostia in the second and third centuries AD / Nicolas Tran -- Rules and regulations of associations: the Eurasian comparandum / Kasper G. Evers -- Conclusion: associations in their world / Vincent Gabrielsen and Mario C. D. Paganini.

"Private associations abounded in the ancient Greek world and beyond, and this volume provides the first large-scale study of the strategies of governance which they employed. Emphasis is placed on the values fostered by the regulations of associations, the complexities of the private-public divide (and that divide's impact on polis institutions) and the dynamics of regional and global networks and group identity. The attested links between rules and religious sanctions also illuminate the relationship between legal history and religion. Moreover, possible links between ancient associations and the early Christian churches will prove particularly valuable for scholars of the New Testament. The book concludes by using the regulations of associations to explore a novel and revealing aspect of the interaction between the Mediterranean world, India and China. Vincent Gabrielsen is Professor of Ancient History at the SAXO-Institute of the University of Copenhagen. He specialises in Greek and Hellenistic history and epigraphy and was Director of 'The Copenhagen Associations Project' and is now Director of 'The Rhodes Centennial Project'. Mario C.D. Paganini is a Postdoc Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Science"-- Provided by publisher.