From document to history
Subtitle: epigraphic insights into the Greco-Roman world
By: edited by Carlos F. Noreña, Nikolaos Papazarkadas
Series: Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy -- volume 12; Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy -- v. 12.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9789004382886
Subjects: Greek Inscriptions; Latin Inscriptions; Graffiti; Sources; Social life and customs; History; Inscriptions grecques; Inscriptions latines; Mœurs et coutumes; Histoire; Manners and customs
Description: In From Document to History: Epigraphic Insights into the Greco-Roman World, editors Carlos Noreña 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intro; Contents; Figures, Charts, Maps, and Tables; Notes on Contributors; From Document to History: Introduction; Part 1 Classical and Hellenistic Greece; Chapter 1 Epigraphy of the Night; Chapter 2 War Orphans and Orphans of Democracy in Classical Athens: The Decree of Theozotides and the Prytaneion Decree Reconsidered; Chapter 3 The Quarries of Attica Revisited; Chapter 4 Writing on the Wall: The Epigraphy of Fortification and the Attic Deme of Rhamnous; Chapter 5 Anomalous Grants of isopoliteia and Diplomatic Discourse in Hellenistic Greek Inscriptions; title: Chapter 6 New Hellenistic Inscriptions from Phigaleia (Arcadia)Chapter 7 The horologion of Dexippos: A Fresh Insight into Hellenistic Lemnos; Chapter 8 Homonyms in Greek Sculptors' Signatures: The Case of Boëthos; Part 2 The Roman West; Chapter 9 Mapping Katadesmoi in the Western Roman Empire; Chapter 10 Graffiti in the So-Called College of Augustales at Herculaneum (Insula VI 21, 24): New Work from the Ancient Graffiti Project; Chapter 11 Wall Inscriptions in the Ancient City: The Ancient Graffiti Project; title: Chapter 12 Public in Private: The Distribution and Content of Graffiti in Pompeian domus and hospitiaChapter 13 Shedding Light on ludi in Pompeii; Chapter 14 Casting a Wide Net: Searching for Networks of Gladiators and Game-givers in Campania; Chapter 15 Political Relationships: The Terms Used to Represent the Public Dedicators of Honorific Statues in the Cities of Africa Proconsularis, c. 50 BCE to 299 CE; Chapter 16 Public Slaves in Rome and in the Cities of the Latin West: New Additions to the Epigraphic Corpus; title: Chapter 17 Secundae Nuptiae: A New Look at Remarriage through Epigraphy; title: A Few Examples from Roman SpainChapter 18 Documenting Hispanic Immigrants in Italia, Gallia, and Britannia; Chapter 19 A New Statue Base of Septimius Severus from Lambaesis: The Army and the Emperor in Severan North Africa; Part 3 The Roman East; Chapter 20 Encrypted Inscriptions: A Paradoxical Practice; Chapter 21 Lucius Egnatius Victor Lollianus: A New Honorific Inscription from Athens; Chapter 22 Four Unpublished Inscriptions (and One Neglected Collector) from the World Museum, Liverpool; title: Chapter 23 Two Latin Inscriptions from Ephesos in the Ashmolean MuseumIndex of Subjects; Index of Literary Sources; Index of Epigraphic and Papyrological Sources