Peter Liddel
Biographic Data
| ID | 2448039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Liddel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Liddel |
| SIGNATURE | LIDDEL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3334-8831 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1875 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Chapter 7 Rules, Practices, Narratives
New Names, Status and Family Sentiment in Multi-ethnic Cappadocia
This article offers an edition of 19 Greek inscriptions from the Museum of Malatya (ancient Melitene, Cappadocia), among them 13 previously-unpublished texts including two new metrical inscriptions. With the exception of the one in the Appendix, these texts are funerary, should be dated to the period c. 150-250/300 AD, and take the form of family members dedicating funerary monuments in commemoration of deceased relatives. They offer significant …
An inscribed Roman sarcophagus from Elazığ (eastern Turkey) with an appendix on a Latin military inscription
We present a previously-unknown sarcophagus of the Roman period with a fragmentary and hard-to-decipher inscription in Greek, today exhibited in the grounds of the Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum of Elazığ in eastern Turkey. A personal name can still be deciphered on the front face of the sarcophagus: Menethymes. Elazığ Museum possesses a large collection of archaeological artefacts, especially from the rescue excavations at the höyük (tel…
The Discourses of Identity in Hellenistic Erythrai
Recent research in the field of New Institutionalist analysis has developed the view that institutions are grounded not only upon authoritative rules but also upon accepted practices and narratives. In this paper I am interested in the ways in which honorific practices and accounts of identity set out in ancient Greek inscriptions contribute towards the persistence of polis institutions in the Hellenistic period. A diachronic survey of Erythraian…
Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC)
Decree-making is a defining aspect of ancient Greek political activity: it was the means by which city-state communities went about deciding to get things done. This two-volume work provides a new view of the decree as an institution within the framework of fourth-century Athenian democratic political activity. Volume 1 consists of a comprehensive account of the literary evidence for decrees of the fourth-century Athenian assembly. Volume 2 analy…
Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2–322/1 BC)
Decree-making is a defining aspect of ancient Greek political activity: it was the means by which city-state communities went about deciding to get things done. This two-volume work provides a new view of the decree as an institution within the framework of fourth-century Athenian democratic political activity. Volume 1 consists of a comprehensive account of the literary evidence for decrees of the fourth-century Athenian assembly. Volume 2 analy…
New Inscriptions in Aramaic/Early Syriac and Greek from the Cemeteries of Edessa
Fig. 1: Map of Edessa J. Healey Recent years have seen the uncovering of two major cemeteries in Şanlıurfa/Edessa in two areas of the city (see Fig. 1, Map): the first one, in the Kızılkoyun area to the east of Haleplibahçe Caddesi, which runs north from the citadel area and is adjacent to the recently excavated Roman Baths, the villa where the Haleplibahçe mosaics (dated to the 4th/5th cent. AD) were found and the site of the new Archaeological …
Four Unpublished Inscriptions (and One Neglected Collector) from the World Museum, Liverpool
In this paper, we present four Greek inscriptions which are in the possession of the World Museum, Liverpool (UK); they have been held in this collection since 1890, but have not yet been systematically studied or previously published
Exploring Intercommunity Political Activity in Fourth-Century Greece
Exploring Intercommunity Political Activity in Fourth-Century Greece
It might seem reasonable to take the view that the study of ancient Greek political behaviour could plausibly focus upon exchanges that went on inside the polis: after all, the word ‘politics’ derives from the Greek politika (‘polis affairs’). However, the concerns of ancient Greek polis-communities were not merely introspective: communities (regardless of size or military clout) were obliged to face the consequences of the decisions and activity…
An Honorific Gnome of the Koinon of the Phrikyladai. A New Inscription From Liverpool
This article publishes a new decree from the storerooms of Liverpool's World Museum. We provide a text and translation of the document, and discuss difficulties in reading the text as well as restorations where the stone is illegible. We offer an approximate dating of the document to the mid-third century, and suggest, on prosopographical and formulaic grounds, that it derives from Erythrae. We offer an interpretation of the status of the transac…
From chronography to liberal imperialism
This paper assesses the relationship between modern epigraphical publication and the deployment of inscriptions in the historiography of archaic and classical Greece down to the middle of the nineteenth century. I shall explore the motivations that led historians of Greek antiquity, before the twentieth century, to consult inscriptions, paying attention to the ways in which the media through which they were available was influential upon their de…
Introduction
This introductory chapter opens with an exploration of the modern organisation of epigraphical knowledge, considering its relationship to both antiquarianism and scholarship and its relationship to the subject of this book — epigraphical references in ancient literary texts. It offers the rationale for the organisation of this book. The chapters in Part I take broadly historical approaches, looking at the ways in which ancient literary authors de…
Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature
The practice of reading, recording, and thinking about inscriptions is common to both the modern and ancient worlds. From the archaic period onwards, ancient literary authors working within a range of genres discussed and quoted a range of inscriptions (dedications, archives, legislation, funerary inscriptions) as ornamental devices, as alternative voices to that of the narrator, to display scholarship, to make points about history, politics, ind…
Eleven, the ( hoi Hendeka )
In Athens, the “Eleven” were officers chosen by lot who were charged with enforcing legal decisions of the courts: with the assistance of public slaves.
Cheirotonia
Athenian citizens voted in three ways: at the assembly, voting on decisions, legislation, and the election of certain magistrates was done by cheirotonia, a “show of hands” ([Arist.] Ath. Pol . 61.1); voting on decisions in the courts took place by the casting of ballots ( psephophoria: Ath . Pol. 68–9); there was also Ostracism.
Demagogues
The nature of Greek politics meant that politicians, in order to secure their political ascendancy, often appealed to popular interests.
Euthyna, euthynai
In Athens, the euthyna (“a straightening”; often in the plural form when referring to legal procedure) checked the conduct of outgoing magistrates.
Epigraphy, Legislation, and Power Within the Athenian Empire
This paper begins by assessing the non-Athenian epigraphical evidence for state regulations in the fifth-century Aegean, and in so doing poses questions about the nature, extent, and fluctuation of the Athenian impact on the legalistic and epigraphic habits of her allies. In the second part of the paper, on the basis of a close examination of the Athenian regulations for Erythrai, I shall raise and investigate the possibility that certain Athenia…
The Decree Cultures of the Ancient Megarid
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The Performance and Presentation of Obligations
This chapter surveys the obligations of the citizen and the ways in which their performance was presented. The chapter opens with those domestic obligations of male and female Athenian citizens which were couched in a public context (5.1), and investigates political and litigious obligations in Athens as they were performed by both professional politicians and the mass of citizens (5.2‐3). Financial obligations (trierarchy, epidosis, choregia) an…
Rawls on Liberty, Duty, and Obligation
Rawls' model of liberty might be used to elucidate the kind of liberty that existed in the ancient Greek city‐state. After a general introduction to Rawls, his thought, and the ideas that inform his well‐ordered society (2.1‐6), this chapter sets out the most pertinent aspects of his principal works, A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism (2.7‐14). Liberty (which consists of individual liberty and political liberty) is given priority among …
Ancient Texts and Ancient Contexts
This chapter introduces the city‐state (polis) as the chief unit of analysis, and the chronological focus on Athens from the time of the outbreak of the Social War 357 to the establishment of the tyranny of Demetrius of Phaleron in 317. During this period (and in particular in the period popularly known as ‘Lycurgan’ Athens) it is possible to observe a growing concern for the performance by citizens of obligations and the development of the notio…
The Negotiation of Obligations
This chapter investigates the negotiation of obligations in the law-courts, assembly (ecclesia) and Athenian public writing and the records of this provided by Attic oratory and epigraphy of the 4th century. Prescriptive statutes (laws (nomoi) and (non-honorary) decrees (psephismata)) and the legal procedures of the Athenians provided the bases of some obligations (4.1.1). Additionally, there was a wide range of values used in the grounding of ob…
Conclusion
This concluding chapter draws together the implications of the ancient evidence for the negotiation and performance of civic obligation and their relation to individual liberty, pointing out along the way resemblances to, and departures from, the Rawlsian world (6.1); there follows a section discussing how the situation in ancient Athens compares to the Rawlsian system of liberty and obligation which emerged in Chapter 2 (6.2). The analyses conve…
Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens
By developing a notion of civic obligation, this book attempts to re‐interpret the nature of individual liberty in ancient Athens. Its primary concern is to elucidate how the considerable obligations of the citizen to the city‐state (polis) and community (known here as civic obligations) were reconciled with ideas about individual liberty, and how this reconciliation was negotiated, performed, and presented in the oratory of the Athenian law‐cour…
Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature
The practice of reading, recording, and thinking about inscriptions is common to both the modern and ancient worlds. From the archaic period onwards, ancient literary authors working within a range of genres discussed and quoted a range of inscriptions (dedications, archives, legislation, funerary inscriptions) as ornamental devices, as alternative voices to that of the narrator, to display scholarship, to make points about history, politics, ind…
Epigraphy, Legislation, and Power Within the Athenian Empire
This paper begins by assessing the non-Athenian epigraphical evidence for state regulations in the fifth-century Aegean, and in so doing poses questions about the nature, extent, and fluctuation of the Athenian impact on the legalistic and epigraphic habits of her allies. In the second part of the paper, on the basis of a close examination of the Athenian regulations for Erythrai, I shall raise and investigate the possibility that certain Athenia…
The Decree Cultures of the Ancient Megarid
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Discourses of Identity in Hellenistic Erythrai
Recent research in the field of New Institutionalist analysis has developed the view that institutions are grounded not only upon authoritative rules but also upon accepted practices and narratives. In this paper I am interested in the ways in which honorific practices and accounts of identity set out in ancient Greek inscriptions contribute towards the persistence of polis institutions in the Hellenistic period. A diachronic survey of Erythraian…
Liberty and obligations in George Grote’s Athens
In this article it is suggested that George Grote’s History of Greece (1846–56) employed a narrative history of Greece in an attempt to resolve the philosophical problem of the compatibility of individual liberty with considerable obligations to society. His philosophical achievement has been largely ignored by modern classical scholarship, even those who follow his lead in treating fifth-century Athens as the epitome of Greek civilization. The p…
Note of an Underground Structure at Gress, near Stornoway, and other Ancient Remains in the Island of Lewis
Liberty and obligations in George Grote’s Athens
In this article it is suggested that George Grote’s History of Greece (1846–56) employed a narrative history of Greece in an attempt to resolve the philosophical problem of the compatibility of individual liberty with considerable obligations to society. His philosophical achievement has been largely ignored by modern classical scholarship, even those who follow his lead in treating fifth-century Athens as the epitome of Greek civilization. The p…
The Performance and Presentation of Obligations
This chapter surveys the obligations of the citizen and the ways in which their performance was presented. The chapter opens with those domestic obligations of male and female Athenian citizens which were couched in a public context (5.1), and investigates political and litigious obligations in Athens as they were performed by both professional politicians and the mass of citizens (5.2‐3). Financial obligations (trierarchy, epidosis, choregia) an…
Rawls on Liberty, Duty, and Obligation
Rawls' model of liberty might be used to elucidate the kind of liberty that existed in the ancient Greek city‐state. After a general introduction to Rawls, his thought, and the ideas that inform his well‐ordered society (2.1‐6), this chapter sets out the most pertinent aspects of his principal works, A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism (2.7‐14). Liberty (which consists of individual liberty and political liberty) is given priority among …
Ancient Texts and Ancient Contexts
This chapter introduces the city‐state (polis) as the chief unit of analysis, and the chronological focus on Athens from the time of the outbreak of the Social War 357 to the establishment of the tyranny of Demetrius of Phaleron in 317. During this period (and in particular in the period popularly known as ‘Lycurgan’ Athens) it is possible to observe a growing concern for the performance by citizens of obligations and the development of the notio…
The Negotiation of Obligations
This chapter investigates the negotiation of obligations in the law-courts, assembly (ecclesia) and Athenian public writing and the records of this provided by Attic oratory and epigraphy of the 4th century. Prescriptive statutes (laws (nomoi) and (non-honorary) decrees (psephismata)) and the legal procedures of the Athenians provided the bases of some obligations (4.1.1). Additionally, there was a wide range of values used in the grounding of ob…
Conclusion
This concluding chapter draws together the implications of the ancient evidence for the negotiation and performance of civic obligation and their relation to individual liberty, pointing out along the way resemblances to, and departures from, the Rawlsian world (6.1); there follows a section discussing how the situation in ancient Athens compares to the Rawlsian system of liberty and obligation which emerged in Chapter 2 (6.2). The analyses conve…
Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens
By developing a notion of civic obligation, this book attempts to re‐interpret the nature of individual liberty in ancient Athens. Its primary concern is to elucidate how the considerable obligations of the citizen to the city‐state (polis) and community (known here as civic obligations) were reconciled with ideas about individual liberty, and how this reconciliation was negotiated, performed, and presented in the oratory of the Athenian law‐cour…
The Decree Cultures of the Ancient Megarid
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Epigraphy, Legislation, and Power Within the Athenian Empire
This paper begins by assessing the non-Athenian epigraphical evidence for state regulations in the fifth-century Aegean, and in so doing poses questions about the nature, extent, and fluctuation of the Athenian impact on the legalistic and epigraphic habits of her allies. In the second part of the paper, on the basis of a close examination of the Athenian regulations for Erythrai, I shall raise and investigate the possibility that certain Athenia…
Eleven, the ( hoi Hendeka )
In Athens, the “Eleven” were officers chosen by lot who were charged with enforcing legal decisions of the courts: with the assistance of public slaves.
Cheirotonia
Athenian citizens voted in three ways: at the assembly, voting on decisions, legislation, and the election of certain magistrates was done by cheirotonia, a “show of hands” ([Arist.] Ath. Pol . 61.1); voting on decisions in the courts took place by the casting of ballots ( psephophoria: Ath . Pol. 68–9); there was also Ostracism.
Demagogues
The nature of Greek politics meant that politicians, in order to secure their political ascendancy, often appealed to popular interests.
Euthyna, euthynai
In Athens, the euthyna (“a straightening”; often in the plural form when referring to legal procedure) checked the conduct of outgoing magistrates.
Introduction
This introductory chapter opens with an exploration of the modern organisation of epigraphical knowledge, considering its relationship to both antiquarianism and scholarship and its relationship to the subject of this book — epigraphical references in ancient literary texts. It offers the rationale for the organisation of this book. The chapters in Part I take broadly historical approaches, looking at the ways in which ancient literary authors de…
Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature
The practice of reading, recording, and thinking about inscriptions is common to both the modern and ancient worlds. From the archaic period onwards, ancient literary authors working within a range of genres discussed and quoted a range of inscriptions (dedications, archives, legislation, funerary inscriptions) as ornamental devices, as alternative voices to that of the narrator, to display scholarship, to make points about history, politics, ind…
From chronography to liberal imperialism
This paper assesses the relationship between modern epigraphical publication and the deployment of inscriptions in the historiography of archaic and classical Greece down to the middle of the nineteenth century. I shall explore the motivations that led historians of Greek antiquity, before the twentieth century, to consult inscriptions, paying attention to the ways in which the media through which they were available was influential upon their de…
An Honorific Gnome of the Koinon of the Phrikyladai. A New Inscription From Liverpool
This article publishes a new decree from the storerooms of Liverpool's World Museum. We provide a text and translation of the document, and discuss difficulties in reading the text as well as restorations where the stone is illegible. We offer an approximate dating of the document to the mid-third century, and suggest, on prosopographical and formulaic grounds, that it derives from Erythrae. We offer an interpretation of the status of the transac…
Exploring Intercommunity Political Activity in Fourth-Century Greece
Exploring Intercommunity Political Activity in Fourth-Century Greece
It might seem reasonable to take the view that the study of ancient Greek political behaviour could plausibly focus upon exchanges that went on inside the polis: after all, the word ‘politics’ derives from the Greek politika (‘polis affairs’). However, the concerns of ancient Greek polis-communities were not merely introspective: communities (regardless of size or military clout) were obliged to face the consequences of the decisions and activity…
Four Unpublished Inscriptions (and One Neglected Collector) from the World Museum, Liverpool
In this paper, we present four Greek inscriptions which are in the possession of the World Museum, Liverpool (UK); they have been held in this collection since 1890, but have not yet been systematically studied or previously published
Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC)
Decree-making is a defining aspect of ancient Greek political activity: it was the means by which city-state communities went about deciding to get things done. This two-volume work provides a new view of the decree as an institution within the framework of fourth-century Athenian democratic political activity. Volume 1 consists of a comprehensive account of the literary evidence for decrees of the fourth-century Athenian assembly. Volume 2 analy…
Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2–322/1 BC)
Decree-making is a defining aspect of ancient Greek political activity: it was the means by which city-state communities went about deciding to get things done. This two-volume work provides a new view of the decree as an institution within the framework of fourth-century Athenian democratic political activity. Volume 1 consists of a comprehensive account of the literary evidence for decrees of the fourth-century Athenian assembly. Volume 2 analy…
New Inscriptions in Aramaic/Early Syriac and Greek from the Cemeteries of Edessa
Fig. 1: Map of Edessa J. Healey Recent years have seen the uncovering of two major cemeteries in Şanlıurfa/Edessa in two areas of the city (see Fig. 1, Map): the first one, in the Kızılkoyun area to the east of Haleplibahçe Caddesi, which runs north from the citadel area and is adjacent to the recently excavated Roman Baths, the villa where the Haleplibahçe mosaics (dated to the 4th/5th cent. AD) were found and the site of the new Archaeological …
An inscribed Roman sarcophagus from Elazığ (eastern Turkey) with an appendix on a Latin military inscription
We present a previously-unknown sarcophagus of the Roman period with a fragmentary and hard-to-decipher inscription in Greek, today exhibited in the grounds of the Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum of Elazığ in eastern Turkey. A personal name can still be deciphered on the front face of the sarcophagus: Menethymes. Elazığ Museum possesses a large collection of archaeological artefacts, especially from the rescue excavations at the höyük (tel…
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