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Epigraphy and the Greek Historian
2008Epigraphy is a method of inferring and analyzing historical data by means of inscriptions found on ancient artifacts such as stones, coins, and statues. It has proven indispensable for archaeologists and classicists, and has considerable potential for the study of ancient history at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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Greek Religion 1828–2017: the Contribution of Epigraphy
2018This article illustrates the influence that the influx of epigraphic evidence has had on the study of Greek Religion in the period since the publication of the first full volume of Boeckh’s Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum. Most leading scholars of Boeckh’s day were already alert to the importance of inscriptions, but had little to work with.
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Greek Epigraphy and Religion: Introduction
2020Emily Mackil, Nikolaos Papazarkadas
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This paper offers a survey of newly published and significantly revised Greek inscriptions, and other relevant publications, from the island of Sicily over the five years 2017-2021. The survey focuses on epigraphy on stone and metal. Particular attention is drawn to the development of the digital corpus, I.Sicily, to the expansion of materials in the ...
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This paper offers a survey of newly published and significantly revised Greek inscriptions, and other relevant publications, from the island of Sicily over the five years 2017-2021. The survey focuses on epigraphy on stone and metal. Particular attention is drawn to the development of the digital corpus, I.Sicily, to the expansion of materials in the ...
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Greek Epigraphy and the Greek Language
2012Part I of this chapter reviews its subject historically, showing how inscriptions allow us to see the development of the Greek dialects, the effects on Greek of contact with other languages, especially Latin, and the ways in which styles of utterance and uses of language changed through time.
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Dotted Letters in Greek Epigraphy
American Journal of Archaeology, 1955IN THE INTERPRETATION of epigraphical texts, the partially preserved or indistinct letter may hold the key to the meaning of entire passages. Such letters are usually indicated nowadays by the use of a dot beneath. Since most of the stones on which inscriptions were cut are now broken or damaged, many letters are of necessity uncertain; and accordingly
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2012
The main part of this chapter reviews the role of texts and writing within the practice of ancient Greek religion, and seeks to modify the common view that oral tradition provided most Greek ritual knowledge. True, most information from inscribed ‘sacred laws’ is administrative and financial: written information — which exists in quantity, especially ...
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The main part of this chapter reviews the role of texts and writing within the practice of ancient Greek religion, and seeks to modify the common view that oral tradition provided most Greek ritual knowledge. True, most information from inscribed ‘sacred laws’ is administrative and financial: written information — which exists in quantity, especially ...
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