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What we know of the Gauls and their languages is learnt from epigraphic evidence. This volume contains articles on the contexts of Gaulish and Gallo-Roman inscriptions, including archaeological data connected with the Chamalières lead tablet...
The frequent use by the Greeks of Elis of the letter rho was cause for amusement, according to Strabo, and the lexicographer Hesychius called them barbarophonoi. The number of known texts has increased considerably since the first inscriptions were...
Huit exposés suivis de discussions par: Egbert J. Bakker, Georg Danek, Christos C. Tsagalis, Marco Fantuzzi, Antonios Rengakos, Alexander Sens, Pierre Chuvin, Massimo Fusillo
Dodone, in Epirus, is one of the most famous oracles after Delphi. Excavations have uncovered lead strips carved with questions for the oracle, dating from as early as c. 550 BC. The oracle's answers are extremely rare but well identified. In 167 BC...
H.-G. Pflaum's exceptional and innovative work has stood the test of time. His studies on equestrian procurators established his reputation, but he was an expert on all aspects of Roman administration. The acts of an international conference organized...
Sept exposés suivis de discussions par: Antonie Wlosok, Jean-Claude Fredouille, Annewies Van den Hoek, Lorenzo Perrone, Christoph Riedweg, Eberhard Heck, Anthony R. Birley.
The study of Greek cities' institutions after the second century BC is still in its infancy. A systematic, region-by-region analysis of inscriptions allows one to begin to distinguish periods, to understand whether citizens were still active...
André Hurst was professor of Greek at Geneva university from 1983 to 2003 and subsequently rector. Friends, colleagues, and students with a common interest in antiquity have contributed studies in honour of his sixty-fifth birthday, grouped into five...
Understanding Hebrew grammar is not enough to understand the Hebrew Bible. Mayer Lambert’s appendices to his grammar book explain Massorete terms, Hebrew prosody, letters used as numbers, and vowel points; and include unusual words, Palestinian...
Huit exposés suivis de discussions par: Wolf-Lüder Liebermann, Jacqueline Dangel, Margarethe Billerbeck, Harry M. Hine, Jesús Luque Moreno, Ermanno Malaspina, Ernst A. Schmidt, Werner Schubert
This work studies the way in which the Greeks kept control over holders of public office, based on documentation from throughout the Greek world in the Hellenistic era. Magistrates in most cities were expected to give accounts at the end of their term...
During the second half of the 8th and through the 7th c. BC, apt and innovative potters, each with his personal artistic touch, had established their workshops on many Aegean Islands, namely in Crete, Rhodes and the Cyclades, producing large amphorae...
Greek epigraphy has far more than an incidental role in our understanding of the history of the medical profession in Antiquity. These 525 translated and annotated inscriptions give witness to the daily life of medical practitioners, such as the...
Table des matières : Kurt LATTE : die Anfänge des griechischen Geschichtsschreibung. Jacqueline de ROMILLY : L'utilité de l'histoire selon Thucyclide. Kurt von FRITZ : Die Bedeutung des Aristoteles für die Geschichtsschreibung,...
Following the first volume on the epigraphs of Euboean colonies, this book presents the monuments of the Achean colonies, the oldest of which date from the eighth century B.C. Even though the attested Achean texts date from a later period than Euboean...
The Bodmer papyruses, acquired by Martin Bodmer in Cairo in 1952, make up the core of what was, in Antiquity, a library. Among various Greek and Coptic texts, they notably include the Codex de Ménandre and the Codex des Visions. Copied at the end of...
This collection of articles is grouped into four parts, dealing first with the most famous myths of the Odyssey (Scylla and Charybdis, Circe, Proteus, Polyphemus...), followed by its poetics and narrative technique. Homer’s influence can be traced...