Epigraphic Evidence Ancient History From Inscriptions 1st Edition by John P. Bodel ISBN 0415116244 9780415116244

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ISBN 10: 0415116244 
ISBN 13: 9780415116244
Author: John P. Bodel

Epigraphic Evidence is an accessible guide to the responsible use of Greek and Latin inscriptions as sources for ancient history. It introduces the types of historical information supplied by inscriptional texts and the methods with which they can be used. It outlines the limitations as well as the advantages of the different types of evidence covered. Epigraphic Evidence includes a general introduction, a guide to the arrangement of the standard corpora inscriptions and individual chapters on local languages and native cultures, epitaphs and the ancient economy amongst others.

Epigraphic Evidence Ancient History From Inscriptions 1st Table of contents:

1 Epigraphy and the ancient historian
Definition and scope
The Roman epigraphic habit
Greek epigraphic cultures
Inscriptions, orality, and literacy
Symbolic epigraphy
Visible words10
Epitaphs
Epitaphs in bulk
Individual biographies
Inscriptions and literature
Pitfalls
Epigraphic bias
Fakes
Dating
History from square brackets
2 Local languages and native cultures
Greek dialects
Sparta
Egypt
Vernacular Latin
Britain
Gaul
Africa
Palmyra
3 Names and identities Onomastics and prosopography
Prosopography
Onomastics
Names
Greek names
Roman names
Roman careers
An exemplary governor
4 The family and society
Family life from inscriptions
The Greek family
The Roman family
Social status and labor
Status
Labor
Social mobility
Social relationships
Conclusion
5 Civic and religious life
Civic institutions
Religious institutions
Associations
Conclusions
6 Inscribed instrumentum and the ancient economy
From production to distribution
Distribution
Vase signatures
Stamps
Amphorae
Barrels and glassware
Bricks and tiles
Kilns, claypits, and the organization of production
Appendix A brief guide to some standard collections
AE L’Année épigraphique (Paris 1888–) (Guide3 1142 = Guide2 821)
Bull. ép. or BE Bulletin épigraphique (Paris 1888–) (Guide3 1146 = Guide2 825)
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (Berlin 1863–) (Guide3 429 = Guide2 334)
I Inscriptions down to the death of Caesar (Guide3 435–6 = Guide2 342–3)
II Spain (Guide3 448 = Guide2 351)
III Northern and eastern provinces (Noricum and Raetia, Pannonia and Moesia, Dacia, Thrace, Greece, Crete, Asia Minor, Syria, Judaea, Arabia, Cyrenaica and Egypt) (Guide3 488 = Guide2 379)
IV Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae and the territories buried by Vesuvius: graffiti, waxed tablets, and painted inscriptions (Guide3 536 = Guide2 418)
V Northern Italy (Cisalpine Gaul) (Guide3 545 = Guide2 426)
VI Rome (Guide3 576 = Guide2 443)
VII Britain (Guide3 618 = Guide2 471)
VIII Africa (Guide3 624 = Guide2 481)
IX South-eastern Italy: Augustan regions II, IV, V (Calabria, Apulia, Samnium, Sabine country, Picenum) (Guide3 674 = Guide2 531)
X South-western Italy: Augustan regions I and III (Bruttium, Lucania, Campania), Sicily, Sardinia (Guide3 703 = Guide2 550)
XI Central and Northern Italy: Augustan regions VI, VII, VIII (Aemilia, Etruria, Umbria) (Guide3 732 = Guide2 567)
XII Narbonese Gaul (Guide3 753 = Guide2 580)
XIII Gaul and Germany (Guide3 775 = Guide2 598)
XIV Latium (Guide3 815 = Guide2 637)
XV Instrumentum domesticum of Rome and its environs (Guide3 821 = Guide2 644)
XVI Military diplomas (Guide3 836 = Guide2 656)
XVII Milestones (Guide3 838)
XVIII Carmina Latina Epigraphica
GHI M. N. Tod, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions, vol. 12 (Oxford 1951); vol. 2 (1948); and R. Meiggs and D. Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions (Oxford 1969, 2nd ed. 1988) (Guide3 41, 42 = Guide2 34, 35)
IG Inscriptiones Graecae (Berlin 1903–) (Guide3 61–2 = Guide2 57–8)
IGRR R. Cagnat et al., Inscriptiones Graecae ad Res Romanas Pertinentes (Paris 1906–27), three volumes (1, 3, and 4: volume 2 was never published) (Guide3 885 = Guide2 673)
ILCV E. Diehl, Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres, vols 1–3 (Berlin, Dublin, Zürich 1925–31); vol. 4: Supplement, by J. Moreau and H. I. Marrou (Zürich 1967) (Guide3 51 = Guide2 48)
ILLRP A. Degrassi, Inscriptiones Latinae Liberae Rei Publicae (Florence) vol. 12 (1965), vol. 2 (1963) (Guide3 437 = Guide2 344)
ILS H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, 3 volumes in 5 parts (Berlin 1892–1916) (Guide3 48 = Guide2 43)
OGIS W. Dittenberger, Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae, two vols (Leipzig 1903–5) (Guide3 33 = Guide2 26)
SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, vols 1–25 (Leiden 1923–71), vols 26– (Amsterdam 1979–) (Guide3 1141 = Guide2 820)
Syll.3 or SIG3 W. Dittenberger, Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum, 3rd edition, vols 1–3 (Leipzig 1915–20); vol. 4, index, by F. Hiller von Gaertringen (Leipzig 1924) (Guide3 32 = Guide2 25)
Larger reproductions of selected illustrations

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