Ancient Epigraphic Culture on the Aegean and Ionian Islands

Krzysztof Nawotka is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. His recent books include Epigraphic Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity (2020), The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes: A Historical Commentary (2017) and Boule and Demos in Miletus and its Pontic Colonies (2014).

• List of Maps List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Epigraphic Culture and Greek islands Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Wroclaw, Poland)1. The Epigraphic Curve on Chios Michal Halamus (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)2. The Epigraphic Culture of Samos Agnieszka Wojciechowska (University of Wroclaw, Poland)3. The Epigraphic Curve on Kos Joanna Wegner (York University, UK)4. The Epigraphic Curves on the Island of Rhodes Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Wroclaw, Poland)5. The Epigraphic Curve on Amorgos Joanna Porucznik (University of Opole, Poland)6. The Epigraphic Curve on Delos: The Attic-Delian Dualism Dominika Grzesik (University of Wroclaw, Poland)7. The Epigraphic Culture of Thera Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider (Leiden University, Germany)8. Epigraphic Culture on Crete: A Case Study of Gortyn Adam Paluchowski (University of Wroclaw, Poland)9. The Epigraphic Culture of Ionian Islands Wojciech Pietruszka (University of Wroclaw, Poland)Conclusions: Across the Aegean and Ionian Region and its Epigraphic Histories Krzysztof Nawotka with Dominika Grzesik, Michal Halamus, Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider, Adam Paluchowski, Wojciech Pietruszka, Joanna Porucznik, Joanna Wegner and Agnieszka Wojciechowska NotesBibliographyIndex

‘Deploying a pioneering quantitative approach to the inscriptions of Greek island cultures of the archaic, classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods, this volume fruitfully explores the concept of the ‘epigraphic curve’, with results which illuminate fluctuations in epigraphical productivity.’