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Author : Stephen V. Tracy
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Design
ISBN : 0876615159
Revision of the author's thesis, Harvard, 1967.
Author : Stephen V. Tracy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1072570427
Author : Stephen Victor Tracy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110407594
This book has chapters on methodology, on the writing of the first decrees and laws of the years ca. 515 to 450 B.C., on unique examples of writing of ca. 450 to 400, on the inscribers of the Lapis Primus and Lapis Secundus (IG I3 259-280), and on those of the Attic Stelai (IG I3 421-430). These are followed by studies of 11 individual cutters arranged in chronological order. This study brings order to the study of hands of the fifth century by setting out a methodology and by discussing the attempts of others to identify hands. Another aim is to bring out the individuality of the writing of these early inscribers. It shows that from the beginning the writing on Athenian inscriptions on stone was very idiosyncratic, for all intents and purposes individual writing. It identifies the inscribing of the sacred inventories of Athena beginning about 450 B.C. as the genesis of the professional letter cutter in Athens and traces the trajectory of the profession. While the dating of many inscriptions will remain a matter for scholarly discussion, the present study narrows the dates of many texts. It also pinpoints the origin of the mistaken idea that three-bar sigma did not occur on public documents after the year 446 in order to make those who are not expert more aware that this is not a reliable means of dating.
Author : Stephen V. Tracy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520233331
Little of the historiography of 3rd century Athens survives, and much of what we know about the period has come down to us in inscriptions carved by Attic stonemasons of the time. This text provides an insight into an unsettled and obscure moment in antiquity.
Author : Jon D. Mikalson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520919679
Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome's domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the widely held belief that Hellenistic religion during this period represented a decline from the classical era. Drawing from epigraphical, historical, literary, and archaeological sources, Mikalson traces the religious cults and beliefs of Athenians from the battle of Chaeroneia in 338 B.C. to the devastation of Athens by Sulla in 86 B.C., demonstrating that traditional religion played a central and vital role in Athenian private, social, and political life. Mikalson describes the private and public religious practices of Athenians during this period, emphasizing the role these practices played in the life of the citizens and providing a careful scruntiny of individual cults. He concludes his study by using his findings from Athens to call into question several commonly held assumptions about the general development of religion in Hellenistic Greece.
Author : David M. Schaps
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136919671
One of the glories of the Greco-Roman classics is the opportunity that they give us to consider a great culture in its entirety; but our ability to do that depends on our ability to work comfortably with very varied fields of scholarship. The Handbook for Classical Research offers guidance to students needing to learn more about the different fields and subfields of classical research, and its methods and resources. The book is divided into 7 parts: The Basics, Language, The Traditional Fields, The Physical Remains, The Written Word, The Classics and Related Disciplines, The Classics since Antiquity. Topics covered range from history and literature, lexicography and linguistics, epigraphy and palaeography, to archaeology and numismatics, and the study and reception of the classics. Guidance is given not only to read, for example, an archaeological or papyrological report, but also on how to find such sources when they are relevant to research. Concentrating on "how-to" topics, the Handbook for Classical Research is a much needed resource for both teachers and students.
Author : Anna Missiou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521111409
The first full study of the relationship between literacy and democracy in fifth-century Athens. Through a close analysis of key democratic institutions, such as ostracism, the Council of 500, and the demes and tribes, Missiou argues that literacy was widespread among the common citizens of Athens.
Author : Chavdar Tzochev
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781621390305
Ancient Thasos was renowned for its wine, which was heavily exported in ceramic amphoras across the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Once a principal market in this trade, the Athenian Agora is now home to one of the largest collections of stamped amphora fragments from the island of Thasos, including 723 items dating from the beginning of the 4th to the late 2nd century B.C. This volume presents the Thasian amphora stamps of the Agora collection, contextualized in a broader discussion of their interpretation and chronology. The core contributions of the volume are an improved chronology of the officials mentioned on the stamps, based on a reassessment of archaeological evidence from the Agora and beyond, and an innovative study of the engravers who made the stamping dies. This volume also provides a critical review of the complex and still poorly understood system of control over ceramic production that underlies the stamping practice. A quantitative study based on 28,030 Thasian stamps highlights the major trends in the Thasian wine trade and offers insight into the role of Athens in this trade.
Author : Lucy Shoe Meritt
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Education
ISBN : 0876619421
A chronicle of the second 50 years in the life of the American School (originally founded in 1881). Conceived as a companion volume to Louis Lord's 1947 history of the first half century, the text outlines the activities of the School both in Greece and in the United States, beginning with an absorbing account of the affairs of the School during World War II and continuing through the Centennial in 1981, with chapters on the Summer Session, the School's excavations, its publications, and the Gennadeion. The extensive appendixes include lists of all the Trustees, Cooperating Institutions, members of the Managing Committee, staff, fellows, and members of the School since its inception in 1881, and add greatly to the usefulness of this volume. The author's first-hand knowledge of the people and events of the period discussed contributes materially to its depth and detail.
Author : Rune Frederiksen,Soren Handberg,Kristina Winther Jacobsen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9788771845068
Author : Roger Brock,Stephen Hodkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0199258104
This volume contains eighteen essays by established and younger historians that examine non-democratic alternative political systems and ideologies--oligarchies, monarchies, mixed constitutions--along with diverse forms of communal and regional associations such as ethnoi, amphiktyonies, and confederacies. The papers, which span the length and breadth of the Hellenic world highlight the immense political flexibility and diversity of ancient Greek civilization.
Author : David Conwell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047431336
Driven by the proposition that the Athenians would not have relied on the Long Walls when their navy was weak, this comprehensive history of the structures dates each construction phase, examines the walls’ purpose, and chronicles their fluctuating viability.
Author : Przemysław Siekierka,Krystyna Stebnicka,Aleksander Wolicki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1259 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110644289
This work is the first complete corpus of Greek inscriptions issued by city institutions in honour of their female citizens and foreigners, with the exclusion of Hellenistic queens and women belonging to families of the Roman magistrates. The corpus lists 1131 women fulfilling such criteria. The Greek texts are accompanied by lemmata, English translations and relevant commentaries. Based on the collected evidence, the authors analyse the phenomenon of honorific inscriptions for women as an important symptom of change of citizen mentality. Pointing to the political context in which such honours were bestowed, the phrasing of the texts, character of praiseworthy actions, and the fact that these honours were carved in stone and set up in conspicuous places in cities all reflect what the male part of the city populace thought about women in general and their presence in public spaces in particular. The book is a helpful resource for all those interested in ancient history, social history, and gender studies.
Author : Robin Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009383646
This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Athenian Empire in new English translations, with accompanying maps, tables and figures, a glossary and short contextualising introductory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts presented include extracts from the important literary sources but also numerous inscriptions and coin legends, some of which were previously difficult for students to access.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009383639
This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Athenian Empire in new English translations, with accompanying maps, tables and figures, a glossary and short contextualising introductory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts presented include extracts from the important literary sources but also numerous inscriptions and coin legends, some of which were previously difficult for students to access.