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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 Müller, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Isabelle Pernin, Robert Pitt, Adrian Robu, and Albert Schachter.
Contributors include: Vassilios Aravantinos, Hans Beck, Margherita Bonanno, Claire Grenet, Yannis Kalliontzis, Denis Knoepfler, Angelos P. Matthaiou, Emily Mackil, Christel Müller, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Isabelle Pernin, Robert Pitt, Adrian Robu, and Albert Schachter.
Price: $245.00
Pages: 502
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy
Publication Date:
27 June 2014
ISBN: 9789004230521
Format: Hardcover
"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.
''Compétence, méthode, rigueur, perspicacité, clarté sont les mots qui viennent à l’esprit pour qualifier ce travail qui ouvre des pistes
nouvelles, défend des positions originales et est digne, à bien des égards, de servir comme modèle à de semblables enquêtes.'' Andé Motte, L'Antiquité Classique 86, 2017.
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).