The inscriptions of Dodona and a new history of Molossia / Elizabeth A. Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyer, Elizabeth A., author.

Series:

Alte Geschichte (Stuttgart, Germany)

Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien ; Band 54.

Alte Geschichte

Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien, 0930-1208 ; Band 54

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Inscriptions, Greek--Greece--Dodona (Extinct city).

Inscriptions, Greek.

Molossians.

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

Greece.

Dodona (Extinct city).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, [Germany] : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013.

Language Note:

English, Greece and Latin.

Summary:

Molossia is perhaps most famous as the kingdom of the third-century warlord Pyrrhus. The Inscriptions of Dodona and A New History of Molossia re-examines the non-oracular stone and bronze inscriptions, re-dating some of the most important to the third century BC rather than the fourth.This re-dating in turn forms the basis of the new history presented here. In this history are stressed the primacy of the king, who ruled a kingdom rather than a federal league; the minimal extent of Molossian ""expansion"" in the fourth century BC; the likelihood that there was indeed no feder

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; I. The established View; II. The Dating of Inscriptions from Dodona; II.1. Manumissions and Dedications; II. 2. Summary; III. Seven Points of Difference; III.1. Molossian 'state' and Molossian KIngs in the Fourth century; III.2. Molossian expansion in the Fourth century; III.3. What if anything occurred between 330 and 328 BC?; III.4. Epirote and Molossian identity in the late Fourth and early Third centuries; III.5. 'The Molossians' in the third century; III.6. What does redating mean for Molossian expansion in the Third century?

III.7. What is the Molossian relationship with Thesprotia and Chaonia in the Third century?IV. A new history of Molossia; V. Epigraphical Appendix; VI. List of Maps and Figures; VII. Abbreviations; VIII. Works cited; IX. Index locorum; X. Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-515-10500-X