Private Associations and the Public Sphere: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 9-11 September 2010

Introduction: private groups, public functions? / Vincent Gabrielsen, Christian A. Thomsen -- Cult associations and politics: worshipping Bendis in classical and Hellenistic Athens / Ilias Arnaoutoglou -- Philosophical schools in Athenian society from the fourth to the first century BC: an overview / Matthias Haake -- Associations of physicians and teachers in Asia Minor: between private and public / María Paz De Hoz -- Newly published documents concerning cult associations in the Black Sea: some remarks / Alexandru Avram -- Foreigners' associations and the Rhodian state / Stéphanie Maillot -- 'L'État intervint peu à peu': State intervention in the Ephesian 'bakers' strike' / Jonathan S. Perry -- The community of the pastoral epistles - a religious association / Korinna Zamfir -- The trade associations of Ptolemaic Egypt: definition, organization and their relationship with the state / Matt Gibbs -- Ethnic Koina and Politeumata in Ptolemaic Egypt / Thomas Kruse -- The Ptolemaic ethnos / Dorothy J. Thompson -- Courting the associations: cooperation, conflict and interaction in Roman Egypt / Philip F. Venticinque