To a pair consisting of an elliptic curve and a point on it, Odeskii a
nd Feigin associate certain quadratic algebras (''Sklyanin algebras'')
, having the Hilbert series of a polynomial algebra. In this paper we
show that Sklyanin algebras have good homological properties and we ob
tain some information about their so-called linear modules. We also sh
ow how the construction by Odeskii and Feigin may be generalized so as
to yield other ''Sklyanin-type'' algebras.