Epigraphy and the Historical Sciences
Publisher: Oxford University Press; British Academy
Published: 2011
Language: eng; grc; lat
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780197265062
Subjects: Inscriptions, greek; Inscriptions, latin; Rome, antiquities; Greece, antiquities; Rome, civilization; Greece, civilization
Description: The largest source of new information about Graeco-Roman antiquity is from newly discovered inscriptions. Epigraphic information gained through use of new techniques and technologies is extending knowledge of the religious life, languages, populations, governmental systems, and economies of the Greek and Roman world.