Ancient Epigraphic Culture on the Aegean and Ionian Islands
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Through a series of case-studies of nine Aegean and Ionian islands, the contributors examine the ancient epigraphic culture of each island's political, social and religious history from the archaic age until late antiquity. These Mediterranean islands – Delos, Thera, Crete, Chis, Samos, Kos, Rhodes, Amorgos and the Ionian islands – were a world in themselves with their own dialects, cults, customs and political structures. Through a careful reading of a range of inscriptions, new interpretations arise concerning our understanding of their constitutional history, economic transformation, relationship with major powers, as well as notions of identity and connectivity.
Inscribing for public display was a feature of Greek civilization that was carried out not only by priests, politicians and the elite, but also by individual citizens. The Greeks developed a plethora of distinct categories of inscriptions, going beyond the standard of epitaphs and dedications to the gods, to include decrees of the people, honorific inscriptions cut into the bases of statues and monuments dedicated to benefactors and athletes. However, the intensity of inscribing varied from one century to the other, and these fluctuations can be represented from a quantative approach as epigraphic curves. The significance of this volume is that it offers an overview of the history of these lesser states, which are not necessarily well documented in literary evidence to the degree comparable with Athens or Sparta.
Krzysztof Nawotka is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. His recent books include Epigraphic Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity (2020), The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes: A Historical Commentary (2017) and Boule and Demos in Miletus and its Pontic Colonies (2014).
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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Epigraphic Culture and Greek islands Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
1. The Epigraphic Curve on Chios Michal Halamus (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
2. The Epigraphic Culture of Samos Agnieszka Wojciechowska (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
3. The Epigraphic Curve on Kos Joanna Wegner (York University, UK)
4. The Epigraphic Curves on the Island of Rhodes Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
5. The Epigraphic Curve on Amorgos Joanna Porucznik (University of Opole, Poland)
6. The Epigraphic Curve on Delos: The Attic-Delian Dualism Dominika Grzesik (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
7. The Epigraphic Culture of Thera Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider (Leiden University, Germany)
8. Epigraphic Culture on Crete: A Case Study of Gortyn Adam Paluchowski (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
9. The Epigraphic Culture of Ionian Islands Wojciech Pietruszka (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
Conclusions: Across the Aegean and Ionian Region and its Epigraphic Histories Krzysztof Nawotka with Dominika Grzesik, Michal Halamus, Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider, Adam Paluchowski, Wojciech Pietruszka, Joanna Porucznik, Joanna Wegner and Agnieszka Wojciechowska
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| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 30 colour illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-44765-X / 135044765X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-44765-3 / 9781350447653 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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