From Document to History
Epigraphic Insights into the Greco-Roman World
Published on 27. June 2019
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-90-04-38287-9 (ISBN)
Description
In From Document to History: Epigraphic Insights into the Greco-Roman World, editors Carlos Norena and Nikolaos Papazarkadas gather together an exciting set of original studies on Greek and Roman epigraphy, first presented at the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Berkeley 2016). Chapters range chronologically from the sixth century BCE to the fifth century CE, and geographically from Egypt and Asia Minor to the west European continent and British isles.
Key themes include Greek and Roman epigraphies of time, space, and public display, with texts featuring individuals and social groups ranging from Roman emperors, imperial elites, and artists to gladiators, immigrants, laborers, and slaves. Several papers highlight the new technologies that are transforming our understanding of ancient inscriptions, and a number of major new texts are published here for the first time.
Key themes include Greek and Roman epigraphies of time, space, and public display, with texts featuring individuals and social groups ranging from Roman emperors, imperial elites, and artists to gladiators, immigrants, laborers, and slaves. Several papers highlight the new technologies that are transforming our understanding of ancient inscriptions, and a number of major new texts are published here for the first time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1111 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-38287-9 (9789004382879)
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Carlos F. Norena, Ph.D. (2001), University of Pennsylvania, is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published widely in Roman history and culture, and is the author of Imperial Ideals in the Roman West (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and editor of A Cultural History of Western Empires in Antiquity (Bloomsbury Academic, UK, 2018).
Nikolaos Papazarkadas, D.Phil (2004), University of Oxford, is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many works in Greek epigraphy and history, including Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (Oxford University Press, 2011) and the editor of The Epigraphy and History of Boeotia: New Finds, New Prospects (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy vol. 4, 2014).
Nikolaos Papazarkadas, D.Phil (2004), University of Oxford, is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many works in Greek epigraphy and history, including Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (Oxford University Press, 2011) and the editor of The Epigraphy and History of Boeotia: New Finds, New Prospects (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy vol. 4, 2014).
Content
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Carlos F. Norena and Nikolaos Papazarkadas
Part 1: Classical and Hellenistic Greece
1 Epigraphy of the Night
?Angelos Chaniotis
2 War Orphans and Orphans of Democracy in Classical Athens: the Decree of Theozotides and the Prytaneion Decree Reconsidered
?Sviatoslav Dmitriev
3 The Quarries of Attica Revisited
?Cristina Carusi
4 Writing on the Wall: The Epigraphy of Fortification and the Attic Deme of Rhamnous
?Noah Kaye
5 Anomalous Grants of isopoliteia and Diplomatic Discourse in Hellenistic Greek Inscriptions
?Randall Souza
6 New Hellenistic Inscriptions from Phigaleia (Arcadia)
?Nasos Themos and Eleni Zavvou
7 The horologion of Dexippos: a Fresh Insight into Hellenistic Lemnos
?Francesca Rocca
8 Homonyms in Greek Sculptors' Signatures: the Case of Boethos
?Catherine M. Keesling
Part 2: The Roman West
9 Mapping Katadesmoi in the Western Roman Empire[-]
?Celia Sanchez Natalias
10 Graffiti in the So-Called College of Augustales at Herculaneum (Insula VI 21, 24): New Work from the Ancient Graffiti Project
?Stephanie Frampton
11 "Wall Inscriptions in the Ancient City: the Ancient Graffiti Project"
?Rebecca Benefiel, Holly Sypniewski, and Erika Zimmermann Damer
12 Public in Private: the Distribution and Content of Graffiti in Pompeian domus and hospitia
?Jacqueline DiBiasie Sammons
13 Shedding Light on ludi in Pompeii
?Joe Sheppard
14 Casting a Wide Net: Searching for Networks of Gladiators and Game-givers in Campania
?Virginia Campbell
15 Political Relationships
?Christopher Dawson
16 Public Slaves in Rome and in the Cities of the Latin West: New Additions to the Epigraphic Corpus
?Franco Luciani
17 Secundae Nuptiae. A New Look at Remarriage through Epigraphy: a Few Examples from Roman Spain
?Anthony Alvarez Melero
18 Documenting Hispanic Immigrants in Italia, Gallia, and Britannia
?M. Cristina de la Escosura Balbas
19 A New Statue Base of Septimius Severus from Lambaesis: the Army and the Emperor in Severan North Africa
?Riccardo Bertolazzi
Part 3: The Roman East
20 Encrypted Inscriptions: a Paradoxical Practice
?Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
21 Lucius Egnatius Victor Lollianus: a New Honorific Inscription from Athens
?Dimitrios Sourlas
22 Four Unpublished Inscriptions (and One Neglected Collector) from the World Museum, Liverpool
?Peter Liddel and Polly Low
23 Two Latin Inscriptions from Ephesos in the Ashmolean Museum
?Alison Cooley
Index
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Carlos F. Norena and Nikolaos Papazarkadas
Part 1: Classical and Hellenistic Greece
1 Epigraphy of the Night
?Angelos Chaniotis
2 War Orphans and Orphans of Democracy in Classical Athens: the Decree of Theozotides and the Prytaneion Decree Reconsidered
?Sviatoslav Dmitriev
3 The Quarries of Attica Revisited
?Cristina Carusi
4 Writing on the Wall: The Epigraphy of Fortification and the Attic Deme of Rhamnous
?Noah Kaye
5 Anomalous Grants of isopoliteia and Diplomatic Discourse in Hellenistic Greek Inscriptions
?Randall Souza
6 New Hellenistic Inscriptions from Phigaleia (Arcadia)
?Nasos Themos and Eleni Zavvou
7 The horologion of Dexippos: a Fresh Insight into Hellenistic Lemnos
?Francesca Rocca
8 Homonyms in Greek Sculptors' Signatures: the Case of Boethos
?Catherine M. Keesling
Part 2: The Roman West
9 Mapping Katadesmoi in the Western Roman Empire[-]
?Celia Sanchez Natalias
10 Graffiti in the So-Called College of Augustales at Herculaneum (Insula VI 21, 24): New Work from the Ancient Graffiti Project
?Stephanie Frampton
11 "Wall Inscriptions in the Ancient City: the Ancient Graffiti Project"
?Rebecca Benefiel, Holly Sypniewski, and Erika Zimmermann Damer
12 Public in Private: the Distribution and Content of Graffiti in Pompeian domus and hospitia
?Jacqueline DiBiasie Sammons
13 Shedding Light on ludi in Pompeii
?Joe Sheppard
14 Casting a Wide Net: Searching for Networks of Gladiators and Game-givers in Campania
?Virginia Campbell
15 Political Relationships
?Christopher Dawson
16 Public Slaves in Rome and in the Cities of the Latin West: New Additions to the Epigraphic Corpus
?Franco Luciani
17 Secundae Nuptiae. A New Look at Remarriage through Epigraphy: a Few Examples from Roman Spain
?Anthony Alvarez Melero
18 Documenting Hispanic Immigrants in Italia, Gallia, and Britannia
?M. Cristina de la Escosura Balbas
19 A New Statue Base of Septimius Severus from Lambaesis: the Army and the Emperor in Severan North Africa
?Riccardo Bertolazzi
Part 3: The Roman East
20 Encrypted Inscriptions: a Paradoxical Practice
?Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
21 Lucius Egnatius Victor Lollianus: a New Honorific Inscription from Athens
?Dimitrios Sourlas
22 Four Unpublished Inscriptions (and One Neglected Collector) from the World Museum, Liverpool
?Peter Liddel and Polly Low
23 Two Latin Inscriptions from Ephesos in the Ashmolean Museum
?Alison Cooley
Index