Epigraphical approaches to the post-classical polis : fourth century BC to second century AD

Author(s)

• Martzavou, Paraskevi
• Papazarkadas, Nikolaos

Bibliographic Information

Epigraphical approaches to the post-classical polis : fourth century BC to second century AD

edited by Paraskevi Martzavou, Nikolaos Papazarkadas

（Oxford studies in ancient documents）

Oxford University Press, 2013

1st ed

Note

Bibliography: p. [301]-335

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume richly illustrates the multiple ways in which epigraphy enables historical analysis of the postclassical polis (city-state) across a world of geographically dispersed poleis: from the Black Sea and Asia Minor to Sicily via the Aegean and mainland Greece. The collection of 16 papers looks at themes such as the modes of interaction between polis and ruling powers, the construction of ethnic and social identity, interstate and civil conflict and its resolution, social economics, institutional processes and privileges, polis representations, ethics, and, not least, religious phenomena. The contributions range from 'hard epigraphy' to sophisticated conceptual studies of aspects of the postclassical polis, and approach the inscriptions both as textual objects and as artefacts. The aim of this volume is to identify the postclassical polis both as a reality and as a constructed concept, not only a monolithic block, but a result of tension in the exercise of different kinds of powers. All the individual contributions of this collective volume show that the postclassical polis, both as a reality and as a representation, is the result of negotiations, ancient and modern; but they also illustrate how much of our understanding of the polis is built on patient, painstaking work on the inscriptions.

Table of Contents

• PREFACE
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION: EPIGRAPHY AND THE POLIS
• POLEIS AND RULING POWERS
• POLEIS IN CONFLICT
• THE SOCIAL ECONOMICS OF THE POLEIS
• POLEIS OF HONOUR
• INSTITUTIONS, ETHICS, RELIGION
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB11524183
• ISBN:
  • 9780199652143
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 370 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 307.760938
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Cities and towns -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- Sources
  • LCSH : Municipal government -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- Sources
  • LCSH : Mediterranean Region -- History -- Sources
  • LCSH : Inscriptions, Greek
  • LCSH : Inscriptions -- Greece
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA62545820