1st Edition

Epigraphic Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity

Edited By Krzysztof Nawotka Copyright 2021
284 Pages 97 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 97 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 97 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book investigates the epigraphic habit of the Eastern Mediterranean in antiquity, from the inception of alphabetic writing to the seventh c. CE, aiming to identify whether there was one universal epigraphic culture in this area or a number of discrete epigraphic cultures. Chapters examine epigraphic culture(s) through quantitative analysis of 32,062 inscriptions sampled from ten areas in... Read more

Introduction: Epigraphic habit, epigraphic culture, epigraphic curve: statement of the problem

Krzysztof Nawotka

1. The epigraphic curve in Boiotia

Łukasz Szeląg

2. The epigraphic curve at Delphi

Dominika Grzesik

3. Epigraphic Culture in Olympia

Paulina Komar

4. The Epigraphic Curve in the Black Sea Region: a Case Study from North-West Pontus

Joanna Porucznik

5. The Epigraphic curve in the Northern Black Sea region: a case study from Chersonesos and the Bosporan Kingdom

Michał Halamus

6. Epigraphic curves in Western Asia Minor: the case studies of Miletos, Ephesos and Pergamon

Krzysztof Nawotka

7. The Epigraphic Curve in Phrygia and its Borderlands

Naomi Carless Unwin

8. The Epigraphic Curve in the Levant: The Case Study of Phoenicia

Piotr Głogowski

9. The epigraphic curve in Egypt: the case study of Alexandria

Agnieszka Wojciechowska

10. The Epigraphic Curve in the Fayum Oasis

Joanna Karolina Wilimowska

Conclusions: One or many epigraphic cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean

Biography

Krzysztof Nawotka is an ancient historian, Greek epigrapher and classicist educated in Wrocław, Poland; Oxford, UK; and Columbus, USA; Ph.D. (1991), The Ohio State University. He is currently Professor of Ancient History at the University of Wrocław, Poland, and previously held positions as Honorary Research Fellow at the  University of Liverpool, Visiting Scholar at Brown University and Visiting Professor at Xiamen University. Since 2015 he has been a member of the Academia Europaea. He has published on Greek cities on the coast of the Black Sea, Greek legislation, Miletos, Alexander the Great and the Alexander Romance. His most recent publication is The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes: A Historical Commentary (2017). At present he co-ordinates a research project at the University of Wrocław entitled "Greek City in the Hellenistic and Roman Age and Territorial Powers", funded by the National Science Centre, Poland.