Mabel L Lang

Biographic Data

ID1017630
NAMEMabel L Lang
GIVEN NAMESMabel L
FAMILY NAMELang
SIGNATURELANG M L
AFFILIATIONSBryn Mawr College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS60
TOTAL CITATIONS139
AUTHOR COUNT60
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1949
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
H-INDEX7

  • The Athenian citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora

    Mabel L Lang, Mabel Lang et al.BOOKThe Athenian Citizen (Excavations…2004

    The artefacts and monuments of the Athenian Agora provide our best evidence for the workings of ancient democracy. As a concise introduction to these physical traces, this book has been a bestseller since it was first published almost 20 years ago. Showing how central tribal identity was to all aspects of civic life, the text guides the reader through the duties of citizenship - as soldier in times of war and as juror during the peace. The checks…

  • Thucydidean Thought

    Mabel L Lang, Mabel LangARTICLEMnemosyne2002

  • Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, Volume 4 (8000-9947) and Index to Volumes 1-4

    Mabel L Lang, John Chadwick et al.ARTICLEPhoenix2001

  • Faces of Archaeology in Greece: Caricatures by Piet de Jong . By Rachel Hood and Piet de Jong

    Mabel L LangARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology2000

  • Life, Death and Litigation in the Athenian Agora

    David C Mirhady, Mabel L Lang et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1996

  • Alcibiades vs. Phrynichus

    Open AccessMabel L LangARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1996References: 3

    Thucydides' account (8.50–1) of the Athenian general Phrynichus' secret correspondence with the Spartan admiral Astyochus is both troubling and obscure. It may be summarized as follows: Phrynichus, having eloquently opposed Alcibiades' efforts to be recalled from exile and fearing that a repatriated Alcibiades would take vengeance on him, wrote to Astyochus revealing Alcibiades' pro-Athenian (anti-Spartan) activities. Astyochus handed the letter …

  • Participial Motivation in Thucydides

    Mabel L LangARTICLEMnemosyne1995

    Concerning Thucydides' attribution of motivation to individuals there is a wide range of scholarly opinion. H.D. Westlake writes: ' 'It is not the practice of to give information about the motives and feelings of individuals based upon mere surmise or even upon inference from his knowledge of their characters1). Very different are both A.G. Woodhead's judgment: Thucydides is a remarkable thought-reader where Cleon is concerned2) and L. Pearson's …

  • Lineage-Boasting and the Road not Taken

    Open AccessMabel L LangARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1994

    There are in the Iliad nine examples of individuals, either human or divine, who recount their ancestry in some detail. The overlap of situation, assertion and vocabulary among these nine examples seems to be sufficient to constitute a theme of lineage-boasting

  • Homer: Odyssey. Books XIX and XX

    Mabel L Lang, Homer Homer et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1994Cited by: 13

  • Ostraka

    Carol C Mattusch, Mabel L LangARTICLEThe Classical World1992

  • Herodotus, Explorer of the past: Three Essays

    Mabel L LangREVIEWThe Classical World1992

  • Prexaspes and Usurper Smerdis

    Mabel L LangARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1992

  • Herodotus

    Mabel L Lang, Mabel Lang et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1991

  • The Archaic Smile of Herodotus

    Mabel L Lang, Stewart FloryARTICLEThe American Historical Review1989Cited by: 21

  • Athens and Sparta: Constructing Greek Political and Social History from 478 B.C

    Mabel L Lang, Anton PowellARTICLEThe Classical World1989Cited by: 2

  • Herodotean Narrative and Discourse

    Donald Lateiner, Mabel L Lang et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1986

  • Herodotean Narrative and Discourse

    Paula Winsor Sage, Mabel L LangARTICLEThe American Journal of Philology1986Cited by: 5

  • Herodotean Narrative and Discourse

    Gordon Shrimpton, Gordon S Shrimpton et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1985Cited by: 21

    Mabel Lang offers a new interpretation of Herodotus. Her reading of the ?Father of History? pinpoints the aspects of his style that clearly derive from oral composition. Lang examines oral techniques in storytelling, known from folktales and other oral literature as well as from Homer. She shows how the dramatic use of speeches?so characteristic of folk literature?played an important part in Herodotus' development of history out of the chronologi…

  • Writing and Spelling on Ostraka

    Mabel L LangARTICLEHesperia Supplements1982

  • Painted Decoration on the Floors of Bronze Age Structures on Crete and the Greek Mainland

    Mabel L Lang, Ethel S HirschARTICLEThe Classical World1979

  • Graffiti and Dipinti

    Mabel L Lang, Mabel LangBOOKGraffiti and dipinti1976Cited by: 7

    Over 3,000 informal inscriptions scratched or painted on pottery, lamps, or other clay fragments have been found in the excavations of the Athenian Agora. In this volume, 859 of these graffiti and dipinti (representing those with sufficient content to be meaningful) are presented in catalogue and drawings. The texts consist of messages and lists, love names and curses, rough calculations, dedications, commercial and tax notations; in short, all m…

  • Homer and the Heroic Age

    Mabel L Lang, J V Luce et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1976

  • Reason and Purpose in Homeric Prayers

    Mabel L LangARTICLEThe Classical World1975

  • The Greek Accounts of Eastern History

    Mabel L Lang, Robert Drews et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1975Cited by: 12

  • Archaeologia Homerica: Die Denkmäler und das frühgriechische Epos . By Friedrich Matz and Hans-Günter Buchholz

    Mabel L LangARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology1975