(θίασος; thíasos). Affiliation of people for the purpose of worshipping a god, as a rule a religious association (Associations). From the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Periods there are numerous epigraphic sources, distributed throughout the ancient world, in which thíasoi are mentioned beside collegium , koinón , orgeônes , éranos and other terms for both religious and non-religious associations, from which they cannot always be clearly distinguished [1; 2.8-56].
A law ascribed to Solon [1], in which hieroì orgeônes and thiasôtai are mentioned (Dig. 47,22,…