Boiotia in antiquity : selected papers / Albert Schachter ; [with a preface by Hans Beck].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schachter, Albert, 1932-2024, author.

Contributor:

Beck, Hans, 1969- writer of preface.

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voiōtia (Greece)--History.

Voiōtia (Greece).

Greece--History--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 440 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Preface / Hans Beck

PART I. INTRODUCTION. Boiotian beginnings : the creation of an ethnos

PART II. HISTORY : BOIOTIAN. Kadmos and the implications of the tradition for Boiotian history

Boiotia in the sixth century BC

The early Boiotoi : from alliance to federation

Politics and personalities in classical Thebes

Tanagra : the geographical and historical context

From hegemony to disaster : Thebes from 362 to 335

Pausanias and Boiotia

PART III. HISTORY : BOIOTIAN AND OTHER. The politics of dedication : two Athenian dedications at the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoieus in Boiotia

The seer Tisamenos and the Klytiadai

PART IV. BOIOTIAN INSTITUTIONS. Gods in the service of the state : the Boiotian experience

Boiotian military elites (with an appendix on the funereal stelai)

Three generations of magistrates from Akraiphia

PART V. LITERATURE. Simonides' elegy on Plataia : the occasion of its performance

The singing contest of Kithairon and Helikon : Korinna fr. 654 PMG col. i and ii. 1-11 : content and context

Ovid and Boiotia

PART VI. CULT. The Daphnephoria of Thebes

Reflections on an inscription from Tanagra

Egyptian cults and local elites in Boiotia

Evolutions of a mystery cult : the Theban Kabiroi

The Mouseia of Thespiai : organization and development

Tilphossa : the site and its cults

A consultation of Trophonios (IG 7.4136).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9781107282049

1107282047

Publisher Number:

40026081615

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