Epigraphy and the Greek Historian

by: Cooper, C.

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 Epigraphy and the Greek historian
Authors:Craig R. Cooper (Editor), Phillip Harding

Epigraphy is a method of inferring and analyzing historical data by means of inscriptions found on ancient artifacts such as stones, coins, and statues. It has proven indispensable for archaeologists and classicists, and has considerable potential for the study of ancient history at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Epigraphy and the Greek Historian is a collection of essays that explore various ways in which inscriptions can help students reconstruct and understand Greek History.In order to engage with the study of epigraphy, this collection is divided into two parts, Athens and Athens from the outside. The contributors maintain the importance of epigraphy, arguing that, in some cases, inscriptions are the only tools we have to recover the local history of places that stand outside the main focus of ancient literary sources, which are often frustratingly Athenocentric. Ideally, the historian uses both inscriptions and literary sources to make plausible inferences and thereby weave together the disconnected threads of the past into a connected and persuasive narrative. Epigraphy and the Greek Historian is a comprehensive examination of epigraphy and a timely resource for students and scholars involved in the study of ancient history

Contents:
Epigraphical sigla
Phillip Edward Harding : list of publications
pt. 1. Athens
Drakonian procedure / David Mirhady
Hypereides, Aristophon, and the settlement of Keos / Craig Cooper
Athenians in Sicily in the fourth century BC / David Whitehead
IG ii[superscript 2] 1622 and the collection of naval debts in the 340s / Kathryn Simonsen
The slave-names of IG i[superscript 3] 1032 and the ideology of slavery at Athens / Bruce Robertson
pt. 2. Athens from the outside : the wider Greek world
Theopompos and the public documentation of fifth-century Athens / Frances Pownall
Horton hears an Ionian / Gordon Shrimpton
Rescuing local history : epigraphy and the island of Thera / Sheila Ager

Series:
Phoenix, 47

xvii, 197 p. ; 24 cm

Epigraphy and the Greek Historian

by: Cooper, C.

• ISBN-13: 9780802090690 / 978-0-8020-9069-0
• ISBN-03: 0802090699 / 0-8020-9069-9
• University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2008

Price: 109,00 EURO

1 copy in stock