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Boiotia in Antiquity: Selected Papers

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Boiotia in Antiquity: Selected Papers
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Albert Schachter
Preface by Hans Beck
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:462
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 151
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
Classical Greek and Roman archaeology
ISBN/Barcode 9781107650435
ClassificationsDewey:938.4
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 1 Maps; 1 Halftones, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
NZ Release Date 28 February 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Boiotia was - next to Athens and Sparta - one of the most important regions of ancient Greece. Albert Schachter, a leading expert on the region, has for many decades pioneered and fostered the exploration of it and its people through his research. His seminal publications have covered all aspects of its history, institutions, cults, and literature from late Mycenaean times to the Roman Empire, revealing a mastery of the epigraphic evidence, archaeological data, and the literary tradition. This volume conveniently brings together twenty-three papers (two previously unpublished, others revised and updated) which display a compelling intellectual coherence and a narrative style refreshingly immune to jargon. All major topics of Boiotian history from early Greece to Roman times are touched upon, and the book can be read as a history of Boiotia, in pieces.

Author Biography

Albert Schachter is Emeritus Hiram Mills Professor of Classics in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, Montreal. His major publication is Cults of Boiotia (four volumes, 1981-94), and he also edits the electronic journal Teiresias. Together with G. Argoud and G. Vottero, he brought out the late Paul Roesch's Les inscriptions de Thespies (an online publication). Hans Beck is Professor of Ancient History, John McNaughton Chair of Classics, and Director of Classical Studies in the Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University. He is co-author, with John Buckler, of Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC (2008), editor of A Companion to Ancient Greek Government (2013) and co-editor, with Antonio Dupla, Martin Jehne and Francisco Pina Polo, of Consuls and Res Publica: Holding High Office in the Roman Republic (2011).