Adria Pinol-Villanueva

Adrià Piñol-Villanueva received his PhD from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2016. His research interests lie in the study of Greek Law, Greek epigraphy, Archaic Greek Literature and Euripides. As a CHS Fellow, he will spend the 2017-2018 academic year researching and writing a monograph based on his UAB dissertation (“The Foreigner in Archaic Greece: Access to Land and to Justice”) with additional focus on a third subject: foreigners’ access to the sacra of the polis. Thus the monograph will explore how the main concrete differences between ‘citizen’ and ‘foreigner’ in archaic Greece seem to lie in the degree of recognition of certain rights in the economic, juridical and religious fields, namely 1) the right to own land and houses, 2) the right to access local courts as either plaintiff or defendant in a lawsuit, and 3) the right to participate in local cults, access temples and sanctuaries and even assume religious offices.