(H/B) THE LOCAL SCRIPTS OF ARCHAIC GREECE

Παρουσίαση

This is the only modern work to survey in depth the inscriptions of Greece before 403 BC. Since its first publication in 1961, the body of material available for study has increased substantially, and the size of the Supplement in this reissue is a clear measure of that growth. The new pages are partly the work of Anne Jeffery, and partly that of her pupil Alan Johnston.
The original text attempts to reconstruct, for Greek inscriptions from the eighth to the fifth centuries BC, a chronological system (divided tentatively into twenty-five year periods) similar to those already generally accepted for Greek sculpture and pottery. It includes surveys of the origin and dissemination of the alphabet among the city states, the development and content of early inscriptions, and the techniques of the craftsmen, followed by a discussion of the inscriptions of each state. Each section contains a list, with bibliography, of all significant inscriptions, while numerous photographs and facsimiles of the inscriptions provide an important instrument of control. The approach is primarily archaeological, but account is taken also of the many historical, philological, and artistic problems involved. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

LIST OF PLATES
ABBREVIATIONS
PART I. THE ORIGIN AND TRANSMISSION OF THE GREEK ALPHABET
I. THE ORIGIN
A. Place of introduction
B. Date of introduction
II. THE TRANSMISSION
A. Primary transmission from Semitic to Greek
B. Secondary transmission throughout Greece
PART II. WRITING IN ARCHAIC GREECE
I. DIRECTION OF THE SCRIPT AND METHODS OF INSCRIBING
II. MATERIALS USED
III. THE SUBJECTS OF EARLY GREEK INSCRIPTIONS IV. LETTER-FORMS AS EVIDENCE FOR DATING INSCRIPTIONS
PART III. THE LOCAL SCRIPTS
CENTRAL GREECE
THE PELOPONNESE
Corinth Megara
NORTH-WESTERN GREECE
THE WESTERN COLONIES
The Euboic colonies, Italy
The Euboic colonies, Sicily
The Achaian colonies
Non-Greek inscriptions
The Doric colonies, Sicily
The Doric colonies, Italy
The Lokrian colonies
The Ionic colonies
THE AEGEAN ISLANDS
The Ionic islands (central and northern Aegean)
A, Central Aegean
B, Northern Aegean
The Doric islands (southern Aegean)
THE EASTERN GREEKS
The Ionic Dodekapolis
THE NORTHERN COLONIAL AREA
Chalkidike
Macedonia and southern Thrace
Hellespont and Propontis:
A, northern side
B, southern side
Euxine
ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA
INDEXES
TRANSLITERATION OF PLATES
SUPPLEMENT
PLATES AND TABLE OF LETTERS