Inscriptions and Greek History ca. 650 to 479 BC

These four lectures explore the contributions inscriptions can make to the study of the Greek world ca. 650-479 B.C. They aim to emphasise methodological and thematic topics, and are generously illustrated with slides. The series is aimed primarily at students reading "The Early Greek World and Herodotos", but will be of benefit also to those studying "The Greeks and the Mediterranean World", "Early Greece and the Mediterranean", or any other paper in archaic Greek history or archaeology as part of Greats, AMH or CAAH FHS. A knowledge of ancient Greek is not essential.

The selection of epigraphic documents we shall meet are collected together in a dossier giving the texts in Greek and translation along with copious images of the inscribed objects. This can be downloaded from Weblearn via the link below (you must be logged in to do this), and it is essential that you browse through the dossier in advance and bring a copy with you to the lectures.

https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/classics/undergraduate/paper%20descriptions%20_%20resources/Dossiers/ (Webauth login required)

Lecture 1: An introduction to archaic Greek inscriptions (Local scripts, writing directions, archaeological context; alphabetic Greek writing and its Mediterranean context).


Lecture 2: Reading inscriptions (a case study of ML 2 (Dreros); Who read inscriptions?)


Lecture 3: Accidents of Survival, Lies, Damn Lies, and Inscriptions.


Lecture 4: Inscriptions and Greeks (and others) in the Mediterranean World.

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