Documents on Stone and Papyrus

Catalog description

Crash course in the kinds of Greek and subjects written on papyrus and inscribed on stone in antiquity, including legal, political, financial documents (e.g. laws, decrees, accounts, treaties), religious documents (e.g. calendars, 'sacred laws', funerary texts), and a wide sampling of documents that bear on such subjects as personal status in law and in society (men, women, citizens, non-, free, enslaved); relations between states, ruler and ruled, colonizer and colonized; agriculture; dialect; private associations; taxation; and more. That, and the changing political structures that gave rise and shape to the content and expression of Greek documentary utterance (e.g. Athenian democracy, Hellenistic Monarchy, Roman Imperialism).