TY  - BOOK
AU  - Papazarkadas,Nikolaos
TI  - The epigraphy and history of Boeotia: new finds, new prospects 
T2  - Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy
SN  - 9789004273856
AV  - DF261.B5 E65 2014eb
U1  - 938/.4 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Inscriptions
KW  - Greece
KW  - Voiōtia
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Voiōtia (Greece)
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Fouilles (Archéologie)
KW  - Grèce
KW  - Béotie
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction (Papazarkadas); Section I. Boeotian History: New Interpretations; Ethnic Identity and Integration in Boeotia: The Evidence of the Inscriptions (6th and 5th Centuries BC) (Beck); Creating a Common Polity in Boeotia (Mackil); F[KRPEF XAV BRL]XLAV. The Expansion of the Boeotian Koinon towards Central Euboia in the Early Third Century BC (Knoepfler); Between Macedon, Achaea and Boeotia: The Epigraphy of Hellenistic Megara Revisited (Robu); A Koinon after 146? Reflections on the Political and Institutional Situation of Boeotia in the Late Hellenistic Period (Müller)Section II. The New Epigraphy of Thebes; The Inscriptions from the Sanctuary of Herakles at Thebes: An Overview (Aravantinos); Four Inscribed Bronze Tablets from Thebes: Preliminary Notes (Matthaiou); Two New Epigrams from Thebes (Papazarkadas); New Inscribed Funerary Monuments from Thebes (Bonanno Aravantinos); Section III. Boeotian Epigraphy: Beyond Thebes; Tlepolemos in Boeotia (Schachter); Digging in Storerooms for Inscriptions: An Unpublished Casualty List from Plataia in the Museum of Thebes and the Memory of War in Boeotia (Kalliontzis)Just as It Has Been Written: Inscribing Building Contracts at Lebadeia (Pitt); Manumission in Hellenistic Boeotia: New Considerations on the Chronology of the Inscriptions (Grenet); Land Administration and Property Law in the Proconsular Edict from Thisbe (Syll. 3 884) (Pernin); Index Locorum; General Index; Greek Names and Terms
N2  - 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
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