Epigraphica Boeotica II

Further Studies on Boiotian Inscriptions
Approx. 304 Pp. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-26791-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

In Epigraphica Boeotica II John Fossey continues to treat results of his nearly 50 years of research into the archaeology and inscriptions of Ancient Boiotia (Epigraphica Boeotica I, Amsterdam, 1991). The first part of the volume discusses the relations between Boiotia and other parts of the Greek world as seen in acts of proxenia and agonistic victor lists. After a section on dedications both religious and civic, there follows a series of studies of ancient tombstones, many of them spolia used in more recent buildings, with prosopographic and onomastic commentary on the names contained in them. Discussion throughout features letter forms and one specific example of this is an epigramme by the Roman philhellene emperor Hadrianus. An unusual rupestral text concludes the volume.

Zielgruppe

All interested in Greek History and Epigraphy (especially the Hellenistic and Roman periods), in Greek personal names and their meaning, as well as manumission texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fossey, John M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

John M. Fossey DèsL (1976, Lyon II) is Emeritus Professor (McGill University), Emeritus Curator of Mediterranean Archaeology (Montréal Museum of Fine Arts), Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Corresponding Fellow of the German Archaeological Institute, and author of many publications on Greek archaeology, prehistory and epigraphy.