The Epigraphy and History of Boeotia

New Finds, New Prospects
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-23052-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 502 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 930 g

Reihe: Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy

Over the past 20 years, Boeotia has been the focus of intensive archaeological investigation that has resulted in some extraordinary epigraphical finds. The most spectacular discoveries are presented for the first time in this volume: dozens of inscribed sherds from the Theban shrine of Heracles; Archaic temple accounts; numerous Classical, Hellenistic and Roman epitaphs; a Plataean casualty list; a dedication by the legendary king Croesus. Other essays revisit older epigraphical finds from Aulis, Chaironeia, Lebadeia, Thisbe, and Megara, radically reassessing their chronology and political and legal implications. The integration of old and new evidence allows for a thorough reconsideration of wider historical questions, such as ethnic identities, and the emergence, rise, dissolution, and resuscitation of the famous Boeotian koinon.
Contributors include: Vassilios Aravantinos, Hans Beck, Margherita Bonanno, Claire Grenet, Yannis Kalliontzis, Denis Knoepfler, Angelos P. Matthaiou, Emily Mackil, Christel Müller, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Isabelle Pernin, Robert Pitt, Adrian Robu, and Albert Schachter.

Zielgruppe

Academics and graduate researchers working on the epigraphy, archaeology, art history, linguistics, religion, political institutions, ideology, and identities of Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Central Greece, in particular Boeotia, Megara, and Euboea.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Papazarkadas, Nikolaos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Hilfswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Nikolaos Papazarkadas, DPhil (2004, Oxford), is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Chair of the Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy, and a Senior Editor of Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (SEG).