Overview

Over the past 20 years, Boeotia has been the focus of intensive archaeological investigation that has resulted in some extraordinary epigraphical finds. The most spectacular discoveries are presented for the first time in this volume: dozens of inscribed sherds from the Theban shrine of Heracles; Archaic temple accounts; numerous Classical, Hellenistic and Roman epitaphs; a Plataean casualty list; a dedication by the legendary king Croesus. Other essays revisit older epigraphical finds from Aulis, Chaironeia, Lebadeia, Thisbe, and Megara, radically reassessing their chronology and political and legal implications. The integration of old and new evidence allows for a thorough reconsideration of wider historical questions, such as ethnic identities, and the emergence, rise, dissolution, and resuscitation of the famous Boeotian koinon. Contributors include: Vassilios Aravantinos, Hans Beck, Margherita Bonanno, Claire Grenet, Yannis Kalliontzis, Denis Knoepfler, Angelos P. Matthaiou, Emily Mackil, Christel Muller, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Isabelle Pernin, Robert Pitt, Adrian Robu, and Albert Schachter.

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Author:   Nikolaos Papazarkadas
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.917kg
ISBN:  

9789004230521

ISBN 10:   9004230521
Pages:   502
Publication Date:   27 June 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   eng, grc

Table of Contents

Contents Preface Abbreviations List of Contributors Introduction Section I: Boeotian History: New Interpretations 1. Hans Beck: Ethnic Identity and Integration in Boeotia: the Evidence of the Inscriptions (6th and 5th Centuries BC) 2. Emily Mackil: Creating a Common Polity in Boeotia 3. Denis Knoepfler: : The Expansion of the Boeotian Koinon towards Central Euboia in the Early Third Century BC 4. Adrian Robu: Between Macedon, Achaea and Boeotia: The Epigraphy of Hellenistic Megara Revisited 5. Christel Muller: A Koinon after 146? Reflections on the Political and Institutional Situation of Boeotia in the Second Half of the Second Century BC Section II: The New Epigraphy of Thebes 6. Vassilios L. Aravantinos: The Inscriptions from the Sanctuary of Herakles at Thebes: An Overview 7. Angelos P. Matthaiou: Four Inscribed Bronze Tablets from Thebes: Preliminary Notes. 8. Nikolaos Papazarkadas: Two New Epigrams from Thebes 9. Margherita Bonanno-Aravantinos: New Inscribed Funerary Monuments from Thebes Section III: Boeotian Epigraphy: Beyond Thebes 10. Albert Schachter: Tlepolemos in Boeotia 11. Yannis Kalliontzis: Digging in Storerooms for Inscriptions: An Unpublished Casualty List from Plataia in the Museum of Thebes and the Memory of War in Boeotia 12. Robert Pitt: Just As It Has Been Written: Inscribing Building Contracts at Lebadeia 13. Claire Grenet: Manumission in Hellenistic Boeotia: New Considerations on the Chronology of the Inscriptions 14. Isabelle Pernin: Land Administration and Property Law in the Proconsular Edict from Thisbe (Syll.3 884) Index Locorum General Index

Reviews

The volume stands out for two reasons. First, it accumulates insights, arguments and viewpoints on a major historical phenomenon ( federalism ) in a region of major importance (Boiotia) with a complex history across the archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. Second, the volume includes sensational, drop-everything-and-read-this findings, in separate (coyly, unrevealingly titled) papers by Y. Kalliontzis and N. Papazarkadas. John Ma, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.07.11.

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Nikolaos Papazarkadas, DPhil (2004, Oxford), is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Chair of the Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy, and a Senior Editor of Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (SEG).

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