Papers by Stephen Lambert
Draft AIO Paper
This is the draft of a paper in preparation for the series Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO) Papers... more This is the draft of a paper in preparation for the series Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO) Papers. In the final version, which we plan to publish in early 2024, the chronological scope of the chart will be extended to 200 BC and the entries in it will be keyed to footnotes recording such fresh observations on readings, dates, prosopography etc. as are currently presented in the notes on relevant AIO entries. In the meantime I should welcome any corrigenda or suggestions for improvements
Volume in Memory of David M. Lewis, 2023
This paper argues that, with one aborted exception, the Athenian Assembly did not provide for hon... more This paper argues that, with one aborted exception, the Athenian Assembly did not provide for honorific statues to be erected on the Acropolis until after 168 BC. It was prepared a while ago for a volume in memory of the epigraphist, D. M. Lewis, to be published by the Greek Epigraphical Society, edited by P. J. Rhodes and A. Makres. Its appearance has been delayed by Covid and more recently by the death of P. J. Rhodes. I attach the corrected proof.
Athens was a city of the written word. The public bodies of Athens and Attica and individual resi... more Athens was a city of the written word. The public bodies of Athens and Attica and individual residents inscribed more words on stone than the citizens of any other Greek city. There are well over 20,000 Attic inscriptions on stone, and the production is continuous from the archaic period through to the end of antiquity. The sheer quantity of the material endows the epigraphical record with historical potential of a character distinctly different from any other Greek city. Together with the rich literary record — a disproportionate quantity of the literary evidence for ancient Greece, especially of the classical period, was produced by Athenians or Athenian residents — it enables the history of Athens to be written across a span of time and in a depth and detail that is unique in the Greek world and otherwise usually possible only for more modern polities. [A revised version of this chapter was posted on academia.edu on 25 Nov. 2019]
AIO Papers are academic papers that discuss inscriptions translated on Attic Inscriptions Online.
AIO Papers 1, 2014
This paper accompanies the publication on AIO of the inscriptions of the Marathonian Tetrapolis a... more This paper accompanies the publication on AIO of the inscriptions of the Marathonian Tetrapolis and is designed primarily to clarify the texts on which the translations are based. It reviews scholarship on the Tetrapolis’ sacrificial calendar (iv BC), published since my new edition, ZPE 130 (2000), 43-70, and makes some fresh observations. It also reviews the other inscriptions attributable to the Tetrapolis, IG I3 255, IG II2 2933, IG II2 1243, and an unpublished inscription.
This paper accompanies the publication on AIO of the inscriptions of the Marathonian Tetrapolis a... more This paper accompanies the publication on AIO of the inscriptions of the Marathonian Tetrapolis and is designed primarily to clarify the texts on which the translations are based. It reviews scholarship on the Tetrapolis’ sacrificial calendar (iv BC), published since my new edition, ZPE 130 (2000), 43-70, and makes some fresh observations. It also reviews the other inscriptions attributable to the Tetrapolis, IG I3 255, IG II2 2933, IG II2 1243, and an unpublished inscription.
AIO Papers 4, 2014
After exploring features of the history and methodology of Attic epigraphy, this paper surveys th... more After exploring features of the history and methodology of Attic epigraphy, this paper surveys the corpus of 121 Athenian decrees of 229/8-198/7 BC recently published as IG II3 1, 1135-1255 (sections I-II of IG II3 1 fascicule 5). It reviews the decrees by category, discussing some historical aspects and proposing some improvements to the texts. It is designed to be read with the translations of these inscriptions published on AIO.
AIO Papers 5, 2014
This paper treats the accounts of payments from the treasury of Athena in 410-407? BC which are i... more This paper treats the accounts of payments from the treasury of Athena in 410-407? BC which are inscribed on the front and back of the so-called Choiseul marble, in the Louvre in Paris (IG I3 375 and 377). It presents a fresh text of the difficult reverse face of the inscription (377), which prints only those readings on which the three rival texts currently in circulation are in agreement, and discusses the date. It is designed to support the translations of IG I3 375 and 377 published on AIO and includes an annotated table of the payments listed in these accounts.
AIO Papers 6, 2016
This paper reviews the relationship between IG II2 457, the upper part of an Athenian decree of 3... more This paper reviews the relationship between IG II2 457, the upper part of an Athenian decree of 307/6 BC honouring posthumously the orator Lykourgos of Boutadai, and IG II2 3207, the lower part of a stele inscribed with crowns commemorating decrees honouring Lykourgos passed in his lifetime. It finds that 3207 either belonged to the same stele as 457, as the great epigraphist Adolf Wilhlem proposed, or to a separate, but associated stele. In section 2 it investigates the decrees commemorated on 3207, locating them in the context of Lykourgos’ career, his rivalry with Demades and his relations with other politicians of the period.
AIO Papers 7, 2016
This paper presents up-to-date texts, informed by relevant work published since 2000, of the two ... more This paper presents up-to-date texts, informed by relevant work published since 2000, of the two extant sets of fragments of the building accounts of the Erechtheion in Ionic script as a basis for translations of these accounts published simultaneously on AIO. It reviews the date of these accounts, and presents a fresh argument by John Morgan to the effect that, if certain assumptions are made, no. 2 (IG I3 477) is datable to 405/4 BC. That would make it probably the latest extant account. Morgan also finds in this fragment a supporting argument for the position initially aired in AIO Papers 5, p. 3, that the Council's year and the archon's year were not made systematically coterminous in 407 BC, as had previously been thought, but continued to be out of step, probably until ca. 403 BC.
This paper presents up-to-date texts, informed by relevant work published since 2000, of the two ... more This paper presents up-to-date texts, informed by relevant work published since 2000, of the two extant sets of fragments of the building accounts of the Erechtheion in Ionic script as a basis for translations of these accounts published simultaneously on AIO. It reviews the date of these accounts, and presents a fresh argument by John Morgan to the effect that, if certain assumptions are made, no. 2 (IG I3 477) is datable to 405/4 BC. That would make it probably the latest extant account. Morgan also finds in this fragment a supporting argument for the position initially aired in AIO Papers 5, p. 3, that the Council's year and the archon's year were not made systematically coterminous in 407 BC, as had previously been thought, but continued to be out of step, probably until ca. 403 BC.
AIO Papers 8, 2017
This paper discusses two important inscriptions for the history of the Athenian Empire, the Chalk... more This paper discusses two important inscriptions for the history of the Athenian Empire, the Chalkis decree of 446/5 (or 424/3?) BC (IG I3 40) and the tribute reassessment decree (“Thoudippos’ decree”) of 425/4 BC (IG I3 71). Based on English translations of the most up-to-date and authoritative Greek texts, the paper sets out to explain the inscriptions in historical context, without assuming prior knowledge of ancient Greek or of the history of Athens and the Athenian Empire. To help the reader new to the study of Athenian inscriptions, the Paper includes an introduction to inscribed Athenian decrees of the fifth century BC. This paper will be useful for researchers, teachers and learners of Greek History at University level, but is also designed to help teachers and students in UK 6th forms studying Ancent History A-level (H407, LACTOR4 1.78 and 138).
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AIO Papers 9, 2018
The main purpose of this short paper is to draw attention to the significance of 357/6 BC as the ... more The main purpose of this short paper is to draw attention to the significance of 357/6 BC as the year that dedications by Athenian officials begin to refer to the crowning of officials by the Council and/or People (section 2). It also makes a case for lowering the accepted date at which the Athenians began honouring more than one Council prytany per year from ca. 340 BC to after 307/6 BC (section 3) and proposes consequential changes to the editions of some relevant inscriptions in IG II3 4 fasc. 1, mainly to dates (section 4). The paper concludes with a brief note on historical context (section 5). [Minor corrections were incorporated in August 2018].
The main purpose of this short paper is to draw attention to the significance of 357/6 BC as the ... more The main purpose of this short paper is to draw attention to the significance of 357/6 BC as the year that dedications by Athenian officials begin to refer to the crowning of officials by the Council and/or People (section 2). It also makes a case for lowering the accepted date at which the Athenians began honouring more than one Council prytany per year from ca. 340 BC to after 307/6 BC (section 3) and proposes consequential changes to the editions of some relevant inscriptions in IG II3 4 fasc. 1, mainly to dates (section 4). The paper concludes with a brief note on historical context (section 5).
AIO Papers 10 (2nd ed.), 2020
A short teaching guide to materials available on AIO with FAQs, published in January 2019. Second... more A short teaching guide to materials available on AIO with FAQs, published in January 2019. Second edition published in January 2020.
Attic Inscriptions Online Papers 11, 2019
The Athenian Council and/or Assembly regularly inscribed decrees in the Agora honouring the young... more The Athenian Council and/or Assembly regularly inscribed decrees in the Agora honouring the young men, or ephebes, who had performed national service, from the Chremonidean War (266/5 BC) through to the Augustan period. The last five of these monuments post-date the sack of Athens by Sulla in 86 BC, and a full set of the texts has not been available since 1916 (IG II2), since when the progress of scholarship has made it almost impossible for specialists, let alone non-specialist researchers and students, to obtain an overview of these important documents. This paper accompanies the publication on AIO of new Greek texts, based on autopsy, and annotated English translations, of all five monuments. For ease of future reference it includes complete Greek texts of the two most substantial sets of decrees, IG II2 1039 +, honouring the ephebes of 80/79 BC and their officers, and 1043 +, honouring the ephebes of 38/7 or 37/6 BC and their officers, with textual notes. Though most of the fragments of post-Sullan ephebic decrees are still in Athens, one (IG II2 1042 fr. b) is in the British Museum, and to accompany this paper we are also publishing a short video about this inscription on the AIO Youtube channel.
AIO Papers 11B, 2020
This paper contains photographic documentation for AIO Papers 11. A larger pdf (38 MB) is availab... more This paper contains photographic documentation for AIO Papers 11. A larger pdf (38 MB) is available to any reader requiring higher definition images. Please apply directly to [email protected].
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