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Teos and Abdera - Two Cities in Peace and War (Hardcover)
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Teos and Abdera - Two Cities in Peace and War (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
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In late summer 2017, ongoing Turkish excavations at the site of
Teos in Ionia uncovered one of the largest and most important Greek
inscriptions to have been discovered this century. It records, in
thrilling and moving detail, the assistance provided by the Teians
in the repopulation and rebuilding of their daughter-city, Abdera
in Thrace, after its sack by the Romans in 170 BC during the Third
Macedonian War. The new text, published here for the first time, is
startling testimony to the ancestral friendship- and
support-networks that existed between Greek poleis in the
Hellenistic world, and includes (among other things) the longest
surviving description of an honorific statue to survive from the
ancient world. In the light of the new inscription, the authors
offer a full reassessment of the epigraphic and literary evidence
for relations between Teos and Abdera, thereby providing a
comprehensive long-term history of the two cities, from the sixth
to the second century BC. The book also includes major new editions
of the 'Teian Dirae' (public curses at Teos and Abdera in the early
fifth century BC) and the second-century decree of Abdera for the
Teian ambassadors Amymon and Megathymos, as well as two further new
texts from the sanctuary of Dionysos at Teos.
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