Piecing Together Diogenes of Oinoanda

Diogenes was an Epicurean Greek from the 2nd century AD who carved a summary of the philosophy of Epicurus onto a portico wall in the ancient city of Oenoanda in Lycia. The surviving fragments of the wall, which originally extended about 80 meters, 25,000 words long and filled 260 square meters of wall space. Less than a third of it has been recovered.

Monday, March 1, 2021

The Modern History of Exploration at Oenoanda

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The Oenoanda Survey project of the British Institute in Ankara was carried out over the course of six seasons between 1974 and 1983.  The go...

Fragment 41

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This piece of the puzzle is another in fairly good condition with a wide expanse of undamaged text.  It is alternatively numbered Cousin ...

Dating of the Inscription

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Martin Ferguson Smith, the main expert on the Inscription, ventures a date for the carving and installation, in a timeline on the creation a...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

The Baths of Oenoanda

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There are at least two baths complexes in the city of Oenoanda. The study that covers both of these is of these Andrew Farrington's volu...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

To Be Termessos or Not To Be?

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Controversy has arisen in the past about the subject of the settlement (and its ruins) that lies below Oinoanda on the banks of the Xantho...

Reconstructing the Stoa of Diogenes

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A most desirable course of action would be a restoration of the stoa and installation of the Inscription on site. The Stoa of Attalos (pic...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

What Needs To Happen at Site

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Repeated over and over again through the decades since the 1970s has been a litany of not-so-veiled comments from archaeologists and epigr...
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