Ancient Epigraphic Culture on the Aegean and Ionian Islands

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Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Wroclaw, Poland), Agnieszka Wojciechowska

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Bloomsbury Academic
30 April 2026

Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; Material culture

Through a series of case-studies of nine Aegean and Ionian islands, the contributors examine the ancient epigraphic culture of each island's political, social and religious history from the archaic age until late antiquity. These Mediterranean islands – Delos, Thera, Crete, Chis, Samos, Kos, Rhodes, Amorgos and the Ionian islands – were a world in themselves with their own dialects, cults, customs and political structures. Through a careful reading of a range of inscriptions, new interpretations arise concerning our understanding of their constitutional history, economic transformation, relationship with major powers, as well as notions of identity and connectivity.

Inscribing for public display was a feature of Greek civilization that was carried out not only by priests, politicians and the elite, but also by individual citizens. The Greeks developed a plethora of distinct categories of inscriptions, going beyond the standard of epitaphs and dedications to the gods, to include decrees of the people, honorific inscriptions cut into the bases of statues and monuments dedicated to benefactors and athletes. However, the intensity of inscribing varied from one century to the other, and these fluctuations can be represented from a quantative approach as epigraphic curves. The significance of this volume is that it offers an overview of the history of these lesser states, which are not necessarily well documented in literary evidence to the degree comparable with Athens or Sparta.

Edited by: Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Wroclaw Poland)
Volume editor: Agnieszka Wojciechowska
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 720g
ISBN: 9781350447653
ISBN 10: 135044765X
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 30 April 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).

Reviews for Ancient Epigraphic Culture on the Aegean and Ionian Islands

‘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.’ -- Peter Liddel, Professor of Greek History and Epigraphy, University of Manchester, UK