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Author:   Christy Constantakopoulou (Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Birkbeck College, University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.682kg
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9780198787273

ISBN 10:   0198787278
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   21 September 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Frontmatter List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Note to the Reader 1: Introduction: Delos, its Networks, Regionalism, and the Aegean World 1.1 Delians, the parasites of the god 1.2 Delos, its history, and historiography 1.3 Networks, regionalism, and the economy 1.4 Aegean interactions 2: The Politics of Connectivity: A History of the Islanders' League 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Evidence, dates, structure, membership 2.3 Agency, negotiation of power, and expression of identity 2.4 Conclusions 3: Building, Investing, and Displaying on Delos: A History of Third- and Second-Century Monumentalisation 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Delian civic building activity 3.3 Delian religious building activity 3.4 Private initiative 3.5 Royal investment 3.6 Conclusions: monumentalisation, funding, and control of space 4: Proxenies, Statues, Crowns: The Delian Network of Honours 4.1 Introduction: honours, publication, and audience 4.2 Proxeny decrees: format, language, familial relations, associated honours, and proposers 4.3 The reasoning for honours and the activities of honorands 4.4 The Delian network of honours 4.5 Conclusion 5: The Social Dynamics of Dedication: The Delian Inventories of the Third Century BC 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Delian inventories 5.3 Some problems 5.4 Inventories and ancient history 5.5 Communities of worship 5.6 Methodology 5.7 Gender dynamics 5.8 Individual dedications versus community/collective dedications 5.9 Delians and non-Delians: the geography of distance for the Delian network of dedicants 5.10 Status dynamics: elite and non-elite dedicants in the inventories 5.11 Conclusions 6: Conclusions Appendices Appendix 1: Honours given to individuals in decrees of the Delian demos and boule Appendix 2: Honours given by the Delians to individuals, evidenced through the inscriptions of dedications of statues and exedras Appendix 3: Honours to individuals awarded by the Delians, mentioned in the Delian accounts (largely based on Baslez and Vial 1987, esp. 282) and elsewhere Appendix 4: ahe geographic spread of Delian honours; a list of toponyms associated with the ethnic names of honorands Appendix 5: Dedicants recorded in the Delian inventories in the period 314-200 BC (IG XI.2 137 to ID 372) Endmatter Bibliography Index

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This is an important book and is a must-read for anyone interested in Delos and its sanctuary, insularity and social and religious history of the third-century. The book will appeal to specialists, but will equally welcome those coming to Delos for the first time as well as those who may not be accustomed to epigraphic evidence. * Elizabeth Foley, Classics Ireland * Osborne and Rhodes' volume is a significant contribution to fifth-century Greek epigraphy and history. It will be welcomed by scholars, both for their own use and for the purposes of teaching. Never has the study of fifth-century inscriptions been more accessible. * Leah Lazar, Classics Ireland *

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Christy Constantakopoulou received her doctorate from the University of Oxford, having completed a BA in History and Archaeology at the University of Athens and an MA in Ancient History at UCL. She has been teaching at Birkbeck since 2002 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2010. Her research interests focus on the cultural, religious, political, and economic history of the ancient Greek world from the archaic to the early Hellenistic periods.

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