While most of our evidence of private associations is epigraphical, Greek papyri provided new and unique insights into the day-to-day operations of private associations. Papyri provide not only charters, membership lists, and information of meeting venues, but monthly accounts of income and expenditures, the menu at club banquets, and legal issues in which associations were involved.
John Kloppenborg
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