Boiotia in antiquity : selected papers

1. Verfasser: Schachter, Albert, 1932-
Weitere Verfasser: Beck, Hans, 1969-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2016].
Umfang/Format: xx, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 2 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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).