Research Catalog

Title

The epicurean inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda : ten years of new discoveries and research / by Jürgen Hammerstaedt and Martin Ferguson Smith.

Author

Hammerstaedt, Jürgen, 1960-

Publication

• Bonn : Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, 2014.
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

Smith, Martin Ferguson

Description

288 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

The Greek inscription set up by the Epicurean philosopher Diogenes of Oinoanda, probably in the first half of the second century AD, is a document of extraordinary interest and importance. It is the longest inscription known from the ancient world, perhaps running to about 25,000 words, and the only one to give a detailed exposition of a philosophical system. Since 1884 a total of 299 pieces of the inscription have been found scattered about the ruins of Oinoanda in the mountains of southwest Turkey - substantial finds, but still not even a third of the complete work. Of these fragments 76 were found in the ten years 2003-2012, all but one of them during a new epigraphical and architectural survey of Oinoanda directed by Martin Bachmann in 2007-2012. Jürgen Hammerstaedt and Martin Ferguson Smith recorded and edited the new finds. The present volume brings together all the articles in which they presented the new texts and revisions of "old" ones and described the survey. It contains also three new sections, including indices of Greek names and words.

Subject

• Diogenes, of Oenoanda
• Diogenes, Oenoandensis, ca. 2. Jh
• Inscriptions, Greek > Oinoanda (Extinct city)
• Inschrift
• Oinoanda

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• In English and some German.

ISBN

• 9783774939271
• 3774939276

OCLC

• ocn900685528
• 900685528
• SCSB-5799732

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries