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When one thinks of inscriptions produced under the Roman Empire, public inscribed monuments are likely to come to mind. Hundreds of thousands of such inscriptions are known from across the breadth of the Roman Empire, preserved because they were created of durable material or were reused in subsequent building. This volume looks at another aspect of epigraphic creation – from handwritten messages scratched on wall-plaster to domestic sculptures labeled with texts to displays of official patronage posted in homes: a range of inscriptions appear within the private sphere in the Greco-Roman world. Rarely scrutinized as a discrete epigraphic phenomenon, the incised texts studied in this volume reveal that writing in private spaces was very much a part of the epigraphic culture of the Roman Empire.
This volume illustrates how the epigraphic habit is ubiquitous but variously expressed. Inscriptions become part of the fabric of Greek and Roman culture.
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Volume 103 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology includes the following contributions: "Perceiving Iliadic Gods" by Daniel Turkeltaub; "The Gods Visit to the Ethiopians in Iliad 1" by Ruth Scodel; "The Poetics of the Bath in the Iliad" by Jonas Grethlein; "The Theologian Pherecydes of Syros & the Early Days of Natural Philosophy" by Herbert Granger; "The Derveni Theogony: Many Questions and Some Answers" by Alberto Bernabe; "Winds and Ancestors: The Physika of Orpheus" by Renaud Gagne; "Sinister Omens, Troubling Oracles, Bad Dreams, and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Patterns of Divination in Greek Tragedy" by Albert Henrichs; "The Toys of Dionysos" by Olga Levaniouk; "Philia in Plato's Lys...
George Eli Benefiel (1759-1832) moved from York County to Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, married Mary Buchanan in 1787, and moved to Jefferson County, Indiana. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia and elsewhere.
This edited volume includes a compilation of new approaches to the investigation of inscriptions from different cultural contexts. Innovative research questions about "material text cultures" are examined with reference to Classical Athens, late ancient and Byzantine churches and urban spaces, Hellenistic and Roman cities, and medieval buildings.
Essays by Cornelia Lauf, Lester Little and Dana Prescott.