DISTORTION OF REALITY IN THE PROSOPOGRAPHICAL MODEL OF URBAN COMMUNITY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Journal: Scientific Bulletin of the Izmail State University of Humanities Section «Historical sciences»
Year: 2026

The relevance of further advancing the theory of prosopography as an auxiliary historical discipline—particularly the development of prosopographical models of urban communities in ancient poleis—is beyond question. The synchronization of the Olbian eponym catalogue (IOSPE I² 201), i.e., the reconstruction of its chronology for the 4th–1st centuries BC, carried out by the author in 2008–2014, opened qualitatively new perspectives for both Olbian prosopography and the general theory of the discip