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In Epigraphica Boeotica II John Fossey continues to treat results of his nearly 50 years of research into the archaeology and inscriptions of Ancient Boiotia ( Epigraphica Boeotica I, Amsterdam, 1991). The first part of the volume discusses the relations between Boiotia and other parts of the Greek world as seen in acts of proxenia and agonistic victor lists. After a section on dedications both religious and civic, there follows a series of studies of ancient tombstones, many of them spolia used in more recent buildings, with prosopographic and onomastic commentary on the names contained in them. Discussion throughout features letter forms and one specific example of this is an epigramme by the Roman philhellene emperor Hadrianus. An unusual rupestral text concludes the volume.

Inscriptions, Greek --- Voiōtia (Greece) --- Antiquities. --- History & Archaeology --- Archaeology --- Greek inscriptions --- Greek language --- Greek philology --- E-books --- Viotía (Greece) --- Voiotias Nomos (Greece) --- Boiotien (Greece) --- Béotie (Greece) --- Boeotia (Greece) --- Bioótia (Greece) --- Beotia (Greece) --- Boiotia (Greece) --- Voiōtia (Greece) --- Inscriptions grecques

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Over the past 20 years, Boeotia has been the focus of intensive archaeological investigation that has resulted in some extraordinary epigraphical finds. The most spectacular discoveries are presented for the first time in this volume: dozens of inscribed sherds from the Theban shrine of Heracles; Archaic temple accounts; numerous Classical, Hellenistic and Roman epitaphs; a Plataean casualty list; a dedication by the legendary king Croesus. Other essays revisit older epigraphical finds from Aulis, Chaironeia, Lebadeia, Thisbe, and Megara, radically reassessing their chronology and political and legal implications. The integration of old and new evidence allows for a thorough reconsideration of wider historical questions, such as ethnic identities, and the emergence, rise, dissolution, and resuscitation of the famous Boeotian koinon . Contributors include: Vassilios Aravantinos, Hans Beck, Margherita Bonanno, Claire Grenet, Yannis Kalliontzis, Denis Knoepfler, Angelos P. Matthaiou, Emily Mackil, Christel Müller, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Isabelle Pernin, Robert Pitt, Adrian Robu, and Albert Schachter.

Inscriptions --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Voiōtia (Greece) --- Antiquities --- Voiōtia (Greece) --- Antiquities. --- Fouilles archéologiques --- Voiotia (Greece) --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Béotie (Grèce) --- Antiquités --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Epigraphs (Inscriptions) --- Epigraphy --- Inscription --- Paleography --- Epigraphists --- Viotía (Greece) --- Voiotias Nomos (Greece) --- Boiotien (Greece) --- Béotie (Greece) --- Boeotia (Greece) --- Bioótia (Greece) --- Beotia (Greece) --- Boiotia (Greece) --- Inscriptions - Greece - Voiōtia --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece - Voiōtia --- Voiōtia (Greece) - Antiquities --- Fouilles archéologiques

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In Works and Days, one of the two long poems that have come down to us from Hesiod, the poet writes of farming, morality, and what seems to be a very nasty quarrel with his brother Perses over their inheritance. In this book, Anthony T. Edwards extracts from the poem a picture of the social structure of Ascra, the hamlet in northern Greece where Hesiod lived, most likely during the seventh century B.C.E.. Drawing on the evidence of trade, food storage, reciprocity, and the agricultural regime as Hesiod describes them in Works and Days, Edwards reveals Ascra as an autonomous village, outside the control of a polis, less stratified and integrated internally than what we observe even in Homer. In light of this reading, the conflict between Hesiod and Perses emerges as a dispute about the inviolability of the community's external boundary and the degree of interobligation among those within the village. Hesiod's Ascra directly counters the accepted view of Works and Days, which has Hesiod describing a peasant society subordinated to the economic and political control of an outside elite. Through his deft analysis, Edwards suggests a new understanding of both Works and Days and the social and economic organization of Hesiod's time and place.

Didactic poetry, Greek --- Farmers --- Poets, Greek --- Agriculture in literature. --- Farm life in literature. --- Villages in literature. --- Farm operators --- Operators, Farm --- Planters (Persons) --- Agriculturists --- Rural population --- History and criticism. --- Hesiod. --- Hesiod --- Gesiod --- Geziod --- Esiodo --- Hēsiodos --- Hezjod --- Hésiode --- Hesíodo --- Hesiyodos --- הסיודוס --- Ἡσίοδος --- Homes and haunts --- Knowledge --- Ascra (Greece) --- Voiōtia (Greece) --- Viotía (Greece) --- Voiotias Nomos (Greece) --- Boiotien (Greece) --- Béotie (Greece) --- Boeotia (Greece) --- Bioótia (Greece) --- Beotia (Greece) --- Boiotia (Greece) --- Intellectual life --- In literature. --- Agriculture in literature --- Farm life in literature --- Villages in literature --- History and criticism --- Hesiodus --- Intellectual life. --- Agriculture dans la littérature --- Vie à la ferme dans la littérature --- Ascra (Grèce) --- Dans la littérature --- agriculture. --- ancient greece. --- ancient history. --- aristocracy. --- boeotia. --- classical history. --- classicism. --- classics. --- community. --- cultural studies. --- days. --- debt. --- didactic poetry. --- family life. --- family structure. --- farmers. --- farming. --- greece. --- greek culture. --- greek democracy. --- greek poetry. --- hamlet. --- hellenism. --- hesiod. --- inheritance. --- literary criticism. --- literary. --- literature. --- morality. --- nonfiction. --- northern greece. --- peasants. --- perses. --- poems. --- poetry. --- poverty. --- property. --- rural. --- sacra. --- self. --- social history. --- village. --- wealth. --- works. --- Voiotia (Greece)