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Epigraphy and the Greek Historian

2008
Epigraphy 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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The Progress of Greek Epigraphy, 1931–1932

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1933
In the following pages I offer a brief survey of books and articles published in 1931 and 1932 which relate solely, or mainly, to Greek inscriptions. Their importance and their number have rendered the undertaking peculiarly difficult and have necessitated, if not the exclusion, at least the most rigorous compression of the paragraphs dealing with the ...
M. Tod
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Leiden Conventions for Greek Numismatic Epigraphy

Ancient Iranian Numismatics, 2020
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The Epigraphy of the ‘Greek Cities’

2020
AbstractThe inscriptions of the Ptolemaic period from the three ‘Greek cities’ of Naukratis and Alexandria in the Delta and Ptolemais in Upper Egypt illustrate the distinctive character of these foundations which contrasts with the indigenous towns of the Delta and the Nile Valley.
A. Bowman
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Greek Epigraphy and the Greek Language

2012
Part 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.
G. Petzl
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The Progress of Greek Epigraphy, 1927–1928

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1929
The years 1927 and 1928 have borne fresh and eloquent testimony to the vitality and interest of epigraphical studies in the unabated stream of books and articles dealing with Greek inscriptions, whether newly discovered or previously known but imperfectly read, restored or interpreted.
D. Comparetti, S. Xanthoudidēs, Panagiotes Kawadias, Th Reinach, G. Lafaye, Vasile Parvan   +5 more
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Greek Religion 1828–2017: the Contribution of Epigraphy

2018
This 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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The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Greek Epigraphy Project and the Revolution in Greek Epigraphy

Abgadiyat, 2007
In this paper, the history, purpose and importance of the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Greek Epigraphy Project are discussed.
P. Iversen
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The Progress of Greek Epigraphy, 1915–1918

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1919
In my last epigraphical summary (J.H.S.xxxv. 260 ff.) I dealt with the period from July 1914 to June 1915 inclusive. The present article continues the record down to the close of 1918. The conditions of the three and a half years which it thus attempts to cover will, I hope, prove a sufficient excuse for any omissions which may exist—as I fear they ...
M. Tod
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Greek Epigraphy and Ancient Economics

2012
After initial comments on the role of Greek inscriptions as ‘archives’, this chapter reviews the drastic changes that have occurred since Finley's book of 1973 in the picture of the ancient economy, both by acknowledging development and growth, and by adopting new concepts, not least New Institutional Economics with its emphasis on transaction costs ...
Alain Bresson
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