Resumen de "Amphoda" in Hellenistic Times: urban planning and philological interpretation
This article aims to provide an overview of the epigraphical data on amphoda in Hellenistic continental Greece and Asia Minor, following J. Bousquet�s presentation in 2004 of a comprehensive philological study of the literary evidence. This preliminary study serves to reassess the administrative role and function of amphoda as attested in the well-known Astynomoi Law from Pergamon. In this text, the meaning of amphodon is still debated. Indeed a few scholars, in the past and still today, interpret local amphoda as streets. Through the analysis of the available comparanda, along with the relevant literary sources, and internal data in the Astynomoi Law, I formulate the hypothesis that, in Pergamon, the term amphodon describes an urban space, which does not correspond exactly to either our blocks or streets. Rather, I return to the original meaning of the term, which had been translated previously as �group of houses�. This is one possible interpretation. However, I firmly believe that, in Pergamon, amphoda, whatever they were, were not streets.
