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Book SynopsisIn From Document to History: Epigraphic Insights into the Greco-Roman World, editors Carlos Noreña and Nikolaos Papazarkadas gather together an exciting set of original studies on Greek and Roman epigraphy, first presented at the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Berkeley 2016). Chapters range chronologically from the sixth century BCE to the fifth century CE, and geographically from Egypt and Asia Minor to the west European continent and British isles. Key themes include Greek and Roman epigraphies of time, space, and public display, with texts featuring individuals and social groups ranging from Roman emperors, imperial elites, and artists to gladiators, immigrants, laborers, and slaves. Several papers highlight the new technologies that are transforming our understanding of ancient inscriptions, and a number of major new texts are published here for the first time.
Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Carlos F. Noreña and Nikolaos Papazarkadas Part 1: Classical and Hellenistic Greece 1 Epigraphy of the Night Angelos Chaniotis 2 War Orphans and Orphans of Democracy in Classical Athens: the Decree of Theozotides and the Prytaneion Decree Reconsidered Sviatoslav Dmitriev 3 The Quarries of Attica Revisited Cristina Carusi 4 Writing on the Wall: The Epigraphy of Fortification and the Attic Deme of Rhamnous Noah Kaye 5 Anomalous Grants of isopoliteia and Diplomatic Discourse in Hellenistic Greek Inscriptions Randall Souza 6 New Hellenistic Inscriptions from Phigaleia (Arcadia) Nasos Themos and Eleni Zavvou 7 The horologion of Dexippos: a Fresh Insight into Hellenistic Lemnos Francesca Rocca 8 Homonyms in Greek Sculptors’ Signatures: the Case of Boëthos Catherine M. Keesling Part 2: The Roman West 9 Mapping Katadesmoi in the Western Roman Empire[-] Celia Sanchez Natalías 10 Graffiti in the So-Called College of Augustales at Herculaneum (Insula VI 21, 24): New Work from the Ancient Graffiti Project Stephanie Frampton 11 “Wall Inscriptions in the Ancient City: the Ancient Graffiti Project” Rebecca Benefiel, Holly Sypniewski, and Erika Zimmermann Damer 12 Public in Private: the Distribution and Content of Graffiti in Pompeian domus and hospitia Jacqueline DiBiasie Sammons 13 Shedding Light on ludi in Pompeii Joe Sheppard 14 Casting a Wide Net: Searching for Networks of Gladiators and Game-givers in Campania Virginia Campbell 15 Political Relationships Christopher Dawson 16 Public Slaves in Rome and in the Cities of the Latin West: New Additions to the Epigraphic Corpus Franco Luciani 17 Secundae Nuptiae. A New Look at Remarriage through Epigraphy: a Few Examples from Roman Spain Anthony Álvarez Melero 18 Documenting Hispanic Immigrants in Italia, Gallia, and Britannia M. Cristina de la Escosura Balbás 19 A New Statue Base of Septimius Severus from Lambaesis: the Army and the Emperor in Severan North Africa Riccardo Bertolazzi Part 3: The Roman East 20 Encrypted Inscriptions: a Paradoxical Practice Patricia A. Rosenmeyer 21 Lucius Egnatius Victor Lollianus: a New Honorific Inscription from Athens Dimitrios Sourlas 22 Four Unpublished Inscriptions (and One Neglected Collector) from the World Museum, Liverpool Peter Liddel and Polly Low 23 Two Latin Inscriptions from Ephesos in the Ashmolean Museum Alison Cooley Index
