EPIGRAPHICAL APPROACHES TO THE POST-CLASSICAL POLIS Fourth Century BC to Second Century AD
by Martzavou, Paraskevi & Nikolaos Papazarkadas (Eds. )
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Oxford University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2013. Hardcover. 0199652147 . Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Slater has contributed one of the essays. Else very minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; 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. ; Oxford Studies In Ancient Documents; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.2 inches; 400 pages .
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- Title
- EPIGRAPHICAL APPROACHES TO THE POST-CLASSICAL POLIS Fourth Century BC to Second Century AD
- Author
- Martzavou, Paraskevi & Nikolaos Papazarkadas (Eds. )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0199652147
- ISBN 13
- 9780199652143
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- 2012. 400p. Hardback. Series: Oxford Studies In Ancient Documents. The Volume Is An Excellent Collection Of Epigraphic Essays
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- 0199652147, Epigraphy & Palaeography, City-states, Documentary History, Inscriptions
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