Format:
Online-Ressource (556 p)
ISBN:
9780521840262
Content:
Explores how Latin inscriptions were used in the Roman world and makes them accessible to modern students
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Featured inscriptions; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Epigraphic culture in the Bay of Naples; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Inscriptions and civic life; Honours for M. Nonius Balbus at Herculaneum; 1.3 Personal inscriptions; 1.4 Inscriptions and the economy: texts of production, distribution, and ownership; 1.5 Inscriptions in art; 2 Epigraphic culture in the Roman world; 2.1 Defining epigraphy; 2.2 Epigraphic categorization; 2.3 Epigraphy in society
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2.3.1 Monuments, not documents2.3.2 The emergence of Christian epigraphy?; 2.4 The geography of epigraphy: a case-study of Tripolitania; 2.4.1 Urban epigraphy; Public buildings in Tripolitania dedicated by Roman proconsuls:; 2.4.2 Epigraphy in the pre-desert interior; 2.4.3 The army camp at Bu Njem; 2.5 The life-cycle of inscriptions; 2.5.1 The production and design of inscriptions; 2.5.2 Language choice; 2.5.3 Reading and viewing inscriptions; 2.5.4 Afterlife of inscriptions; 3 A technical guide to Latin epigraphy; 3.1 Finding published inscriptions
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3.1.1 Guide to CIL and other corpora (* = in preparation)3.1.2 Major corpora of Christian inscriptions; 3.2 Reading an epigraphic publication; 3.2.1 How to use CIL; 3.2.2 Editorial conventions; 3.2.3 'History from square brackets'; 3.2.4 Abbreviations; 3.2.5 Working with stemmata; 3.3 Beyond the book: viewing and recording an inscription; 3.3.1 On site and in museums; 3.3.2 Forgeries; 3.4 Dating inscriptions; 3.5 Putting the pieces together; Appendix 1: Consular fasti, 298 BC - AD 541; BC; AD; Appendix 2: Imperial titles, Augustus-Justinian; AUGUSTUS (43 BC-19th Aug. AD 14)
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TIBERIUS (19th Aug. AD 14 - 16th Mar. AD 37)GAIUS CALIGULA (18th Mar. 37 - 24th Jan. 41); CLAUDIUS (24th Jan. 41 - 13th Oct. 54); NERO (13th Oct. 54 - 9th Jun. 68); GALBA (8/9th Jun. 68 - 15th Jan. 69); OTHO (15th Jan. - 16/17th Apr. 69); VITELLIUS (2nd Jan. - 20th Dec. 69); VESPASIAN (1st Jul. 69 - 23rd Jun. 79); TITUS (24th Jun. 79 - 13th Sep. 81); DOMITIAN (14th Sep. 81 - 18th Sep. 96); NERVA (18th Sep. 96 - 25/28th Jan. 98); TRAJAN (25/8th Jan. 98 - 7/10th Aug. 117); HADRIAN (11th Aug. 117 - 10th Jul. 138); ANTONINUS PIUS (10th Jul. 138 - 7th Mar. 161)
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MARCUS AURELIUS (7th Mar. 161- 17th Mar. 180 jointly with Lucius Verus to 169, then with his son Commodus from 176); LUCIUS VERUS (7th Mar. 161 - Jan./Feb. 169, jointly with Marcus Aurelius); COMMODUS (27th Nov. 176 - 31st Dec. 192; at first jointly with his father Marcus Aurelius, then sole emperor 17th Mar. 180 - 31st Dec. 192); PERTINAX (31st Dec. 192 - 28th Mar. 193); DIDIUS JULIANUS (28th Mar. - 2nd Jun. 193); SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS (9th Apr. 193 - 4th Feb. 211); CARACALLA (4th Feb. 211 - 8th Apr. 217)9; GETA (jointly with his brother Caracalla, 4th Feb. 211 - 2nd Feb. 212)
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MACRINUS (11th Apr. 217 - 8th Jun. 218)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139570657
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521840262
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy
Language:
English
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