Greek History and Epigraphy

Essays in honour of P.J. Rhodes. Edited by Lynette Mitchell and Lene Rubinstein. Contributors: J.K. Davies, Boris Dreyer, Valerij Gouschin, Mogens Herman Hansen, Simon Hornblower, Andronike Makres, A.P. Matthaiou, Lynette Mitchell, Robin Osborne, Lene Rubinstein, Adele C. Scafuro, James P. Sickinger, Christopher Tuplin, David Whitehead and Ian Worthington. This volume collects 15 new essays on topics in Greek history and epigraphy by an international cast of highly respected historians and epigraphers. Contributions include papers on Athenian politics and political institutions, the language and significance of honorific decrees, the role of inscriptions in the Athenian democratic state and elsewhere, as well as analyses of the methods for interpreting them. Together this collection represents celebration of the work of the distinguished historian Professor Peter Rhodes. From the content: Lynette Mitchell: The rules of the game: three studies in friendship, equality and politics; - Boris Dreyer: City elites and the administration of the Attalid kingdom after the peace of Apameia evidence, research and methodological thoughts; - David Whitehead: Andragathia and arête; - Adele C. Scafuro: The crowning of Amphiaraos; - James Sickinger: Nothing to do with democracy: 'Formulae of Disclosure’ and the Athenian epigraphic habit - Robin Osborne: The politics of an epigraphic habit: the case of Thasos; - Lene Rubinstein: Ateleia grants and their enforcement in the Classical and early Hellenistic periods; - Mogens Herman Hansen: A Note on Agyrrhios' Grain-Tax Law of 374/3; - A.P. Matthaiou: Attic public inscriptions of the fifth-century BC in Ionic script; Christopher Tuplin: The Gadatas letter; - Andronike Makres: Unpublished ephebic list in the Benakion museum of Kalamata; -Valerij Gushchin: Athenian ostracism and ostraka: some historical and statistical observations; - Simon Hornblower: Thucydides and the Athenian boule - Council of Five Hundred; - Ian Worthington: IG ii2 236 and Philip’s common peace of 337; - J.K. Davies: Writing Greek history. An agenda for the next generation. XXVIII,301 Seiten, gebunden (The Classical Press of Wales 2009) textsauber, mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use

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