Public records and archives in classical Athens /
Sickinger (classics, Florida State University) explores the use and preservation of public records, especially laws and decrees, in the ancient Athenian democracy of the archaic and classical periods. He demonstrates that inscriptions on marble represented only a small part of Athenian record keepin...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Studies in the history of Greece and Rome.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Sickinger (classics, Florida State University) explores the use and preservation of public records, especially laws and decrees, in the ancient Athenian democracy of the archaic and classical periods. He demonstrates that inscriptions on marble represented only a small part of Athenian record keeping, and traces the development of more numerous and more widely used archival texts written on wooden tablets or papyri, from their first use to record laws in Drakon and Solon in the late seventh and early sixth century BC, through the proliferation of public record keeping of all sorts that occurred over the course of the sixth and fifth centuries. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 274 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807861162 9780807861165 |
