Athenian Lettering Of The Fifth Century Bc

Author : Stephen Victor Tracy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110407590
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athenian Lettering of the Fifth Century B.C. written by Stephen Victor Tracy and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has chapters on methodology, on the writing of the first decrees and laws of the years ca. 515 to 450 B.C., on unique examples of writing of ca. 450 to 400, on the inscribers of the Lapis Primus and Lapis Secundus (IG I3 259-280), and on those of the Attic Stelai (IG I3 421-430). These are followed by studies of 11 individual cutters arranged in chronological order. This study brings order to the study of hands of the fifth century by setting out a methodology and by discussing the attempts of others to identify hands. Another aim is to bring out the individuality of the writing of these early inscribers. It shows that from the beginning the writing on Athenian inscriptions on stone was very idiosyncratic, for all intents and purposes individual writing. It identifies the inscribing of the sacred inventories of Athena beginning about 450 B.C. as the genesis of the professional letter cutter in Athens and traces the trajectory of the profession. While the dating of many inscriptions will remain a matter for scholarly discussion, the present study narrows the dates of many texts. It also pinpoints the origin of the mistaken idea that three-bar sigma did not occur on public documents after the year 446 in order to make those who are not expert more aware that this is not a reliable means of dating.

Author : Michael B. Walbank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athenian Proxenies of the Fifth Century, B.C. written by Michael B. Walbank and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Russell Meiggs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century B.C. written by Russell Meiggs and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of Meiggs and Lewis's standard selection (first published in 1969) includes ninety-five texts covering the period from 750 B.C. through the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B.C. A new addenda and concordance bring the book completely up to date.

Author : Leah Lazar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198896301
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC written by Leah Lazar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC provides a new analysis of the fifth-century BC Athenian empire, a central topic in ancient Greek history. Challenging orthodox approaches, which have been mostly empirical, monolithic and focused on Athens, the book argues that Athenian power was flexible and a matter of negotiation between the Athenians and their allies. It brings the allies to centre stage as active agents, and considers how the Athenian empire operated in different regions. The first three chapters focus on political, fiscal and religious interactions between the Athenians and their allies in Athenian contexts. The subsequent three chapters then offer studies of the empire in three different regions - the North Aegean, Rhodes, and the straits between the Aegean and the Black Sea - showing how the empire employed overlapping but differentiated regional strategies. This book is distinct from previous contributions in three key ways. First, it offers new perspectives on well-known Athenian epigraphic and literary sources, while also utilising different categories of non-Athenian evidence, including varied forms of material culture. Second, it provides sophisticated economic analysis. Third, the monograph makes use of critical historical comparison: with other imperial powers, with later Athenian power, and with the operation of fifth-century Athenian power in different regions.

Author : Stephen V. Tracy
Publisher : ASCSA
ISBN 13 : 9780876615157
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lettering of an Athenian Mason written by Stephen V. Tracy and published by ASCSA. This book was released on 1975 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of the author's thesis, Harvard, 1967.

Author : Stephen V. Tracy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520928547
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athens and Macedon written by Stephen V. Tracy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-08-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little of the historiography of third-century Athens survives, and much of what we know—or might know—about the period has come down to us in inscriptions carved by Attic stonemasons of the time. In this book Stephen Tracy, the world's preeminent expert in this area, provides new insight into an unsettled and obscure moment in antiquity.

Author : Anna Missiou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521111404
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacy and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens written by Anna Missiou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full study of the relationship between literacy and democracy in fifth-century Athens. Through a close analysis of key democratic institutions, such as ostracism, the Council of 500, and the demes and tribes, Missiou argues that literacy was widespread among the common citizens of Athens.

Author : Paola Ceccarelli
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191663077
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greek Letter Writing written by Paola Ceccarelli and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Ceccarelli offers a history of the development of letter writing in ancient Greece from the archaic to the early Hellenistic period. Highlighting the specificity of letter-writing, as opposed to other forms of communication and writing, the volume looks at documentary letters, but also traces the role of embedded letters in the texts of the ancient historians, in drama, and in the speeches of the orators. While a letter is in itself the transcription of an oral message and, as such, can be either truthful or deceitful, letters acquired negative connotations in the fifth century, especially when used for transactions concerning the public and not the private sphere. Viewed as the instrument of tyrants or near eastern kings, these negative connotations were evident especially in Athens where comedy and tragedy testified to an underlying concern with epistolary communication. In other areas of the Greek world, such as Sparta or Crete, the letter may have been seen as an unproblematic instrument for managing public policies, with inscriptions documenting the official use of letters not only by the Hellenistic kings, but also by some poleis.

Author : Patience Haggard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secretaries of the Athenian Boule in the Fifth Century B. C. written by Patience Haggard and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marc Domingo Gygax
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108901255
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benefactors and the Polis written by Marc Domingo Gygax and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians generally study elite public gift-giving in ancient Greek cities as a phenomenon that gained prominence only in the Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods. The contributors to this volume challenge this perspective by offering analyses of various manifestations of elite public giving in the Greek cities from Homeric times until Late Antiquity, highlighting this as a structural feature of polis society from its origins in the early Archaic age to the world of the Christian Greek city in the early Byzantine period. They discuss existing interpretations, offer novel ideas and arguments, and stress continuities and changes over time. Bracketed by a substantial Introduction and Conclusion, the volume is accessible both to ancient historians and to scholars studying gift-giving in other times and places.