The epigraphy and history of Boeotia : new finds, new prospects /

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Imprint:	Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
Description:	xiv, 501 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy ; volume 4 Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy ; 4.
Subject:	Inscriptions -- Greece -- Voiōtia. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Voiōtia. Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) Inscriptions. Voiōtia (Greece) -- Antiquities. Greece -- Voiōtia.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10076449

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Other authors / contributors:	Papazarkadas, Nikolaos, 1974-
ISBN:	9789004230521 (hardback : alk. paper) 9004230521 (hardback : alk. paper) 9789004273856 (e-book) 9004273859 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Section I. Boeotian History: New Interpretations
1. Ethnic Identity and Integration in Boeotia: The Evidence of the Inscriptions (6th and 5th Centuries BC)
2. Creating a Common Polity in Boeotia
3. ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿The Expansion of the Boeotian Koinon towards Central Euboia in the Early Third Century BC
4. Between Macedon, Achaea and Boeotia: The Epigraphy of Hellenistic Megara Revisited
5. A Koinon after 146? Reflections on the Political and Institutional Situation of Boeotia in the Late Hellenistic Period
Section II. The New Epigraphy of Thebes
6. The Inscriptions from the Sanctuary of Herakles at Thebes: An Overview
7. Four Inscribed Bronze Tablets from Thebes: Preliminary Notes
8. Two New Epigrams from Thebes
9. New Inscribed Funerary Monuments from Thebes
Section III. Boeotian Epigraphy: Beyond Thebes
10. Tlepolemos in Boeotia
11. Digging in Storerooms for Inscriptions: An Unpublished Casualty List from Plataia in the Museum of Thebes and the Memory of War in Boeotia
12. Just as It Has been Written: Inscribing Building Contracts at Lebadeia
13. Manumission in Hellenistic Boeotia: New Considerations on the Chronology of the Inscriptions
14. Land Administration and Property Law in the Proconsular Edict from Thisbe (Syll 3 884)
Index Loconun
I. Literary Sources
II. Epigraphical Sources
General Index
Greek Names and Terms
I. Personal Names
II. Geographical Names
III. Religious Terms
IV. Important Greek Words

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