An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy : Volume 1 : The Archaic Inscriptions and the Greek Alphabet & Volume 2 : The Inscriptions of Attica

by: Roberts, E.S. Gardner, E.A.

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In 1887, when the first volume of this work was published, Greek epigraphy was not systematically studied or taught in English universities, and the book was specifically written to fulfil a need for 'a popular work, giving a classification of Greek inscriptions according to their age, country and subject, and a selection of texts by way of samples, under each class'. At a time when the value of some Greek letters (those peculiar to one city's version of the alphabet and so known rarely in surviving inscriptions) was not universally agreed, and when excavation was regularly providing new materials for study, the book was widely welcomed as a tool for research. The first volume contains a historical sketch of the Greek alphabet and a sequence of inscriptions showing its development across the Mediterranean area and Asia Minor until the end of the fifth century CE.

The second volume of E. S. Robert's Introduction to Greek Epigraphy, written with E. A. Gardner and published in 1905, continued the important and innovative work of the first volume of 1887. The focus is on the inscriptions found in Attica, and especially Athens: they are presented in categories such as decrees of the city-state, foreign affairs, financial, military and naval affairs, administrative regulations, lists of officials, and dedicatory and funerary inscriptions. Each is given in transcription, with suggested restorations and the reproduction of unusual characters where the value is not certain, and with full explanatory notes.

An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy
Volume 1. The Archaic Inscriptions and the Greek Alphabet

Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Classics

EDITOR: E. S. Roberts

Table of Contents
Preface
List of periodicals and works of reference
1. Historical sketch of the Greek alphabet
2. Inscriptions illustrating the history and development of the Greek alphabet from the earliest times to the end of the fifth century AD
Eastern Group
Western Group
The Hellenistic alphabets of Phrygia, Lycia, Pamphylia, Cappadocia, Caria, Hispanis
Appendix
Tables of alphabets
Tables of comparative numbers
Index.

An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy
Volume 2. The Inscriptions of Attica

Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Classics

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
List of abbreviations
Errata
Attica:
1. Decrees of the senate and people
2. Decrees and letters of foreign states and of the Amphictyonic Council
3. Decrees of tribes, demes, cleruchs, clans, phratriae, guilds and other associations
4. Imperial ordinances, laws, edicts and other documents
5. Finance
6. Administration of temples, regulations for ritual, oracles, edicts of priests, foundation of a sanctuary, erections of a taurobolic altar
7. Official lists of various kinds
8. Dedications, public and private, including agonistic and choragic dedications, and inscriptions on statue-bases etc.
9. Inscriptions on the seats of the Theatre of Dionysus
10. Artists' signatures, inscriptions on statue-bases and other honorary inscriptions
11. Boundary stones and mortgage stones
12. Sepulchral monuments
13. Miscellaneous
List of deeds, with demotics
Comparative tables
Addenda
Plates
Index.
 

An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy : Volume 1 : The Archaic Inscriptions and the Greek Alphabet & Volume 2 : The Inscriptions of Attica

by: Roberts, E.S. Gardner, E.A.

• ISBN-13: 9781108010191 / 9781108010207
• ISBN-03: 1108010199 / 1108010202
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011

Price: 95,00 EURO

1 copy in stock