Boiotia in Antiquity: Selected Papers
Cambridge University Press, 5/16/2016
EAN 9781107053243, ISBN10: 1107053242
Hardcover, 454 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 3 cm
Language: English
Boiotia was - next to Athens and Sparta - one of the most important regions of ancient Greece. Albert Schachter, a leading expert on the region, has for many decades pioneered and fostered the exploration of it and its people through his research. His seminal publications have covered all aspects of its history, institutions, cults, and literature from late Mycenaean times to the Roman Empire, revealing a mastery of the epigraphic evidence, archaeological data, and the literary tradition. This volume conveniently brings together twenty-three papers (two previously unpublished, others revised and updated) which display a compelling intellectual coherence and a narrative style refreshingly immune to jargon. All major topics of Boiotian history from early Greece to Roman times are touched upon, and the book can be read as a history of Boiotia, in pieces.
Part I. Introduction
1. Boiotian beginnings
the creation of an ethnos
Part II. History
Boiotian
2. Kadmos and the implications of the tradition for Boiotian history
3. Boiotia in the sixth century BC
4. The early Boiotoi
from alliance to federation
5. Politics and personalities in classical Thebes
6. Tanagra
the geographical and historical context
7. From hegemony to disaster
Thebes from 362 to 335
8. Pausanias and Boiotia
Part III. History
Boiotian and Other
9. The politics of dedication
two Athenian dedications at the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoieus in Boiotia
10. The seer Tisamenos and the Klytiadai
Part IV. Boiotian Institutions
11. Gods in the service of the state
the Boiotian experience
12. Boiotian military elites (with an appendix on the funereal stelai)
13. Three generations of magistrates from Akraiphia
Part V. Literature
14. Simonides' elegy on Plataia
the occasion of its performance
15. The singing contest of Kithairon and Helikon
Korinna fr. 654 PMG col. i and ii.1-11
content and context
16. Ovid and Boiotia
Part VI. Cult
17. The Daphnephoria of Thebes
18. Reflections on an inscription from Tanagra
19. Egyptian cults and local elites in Boiotia
20. Evolutions of a mystery cult
the Theban Kabiroi
21. The Mouseia of Thespiai
organization and development
22. Tilphossa
the site and its cults
23. A consultation of Trophonios (IG 7.4136).