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.

Saturday, June 29, 2013

The Builder of the Stoas?

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While recently reading Stephen Mitchell's piece "Festivals, Games, and Civic Life in Roman Asia Minor" in the Stephen Mitche...

Another Map of Lycia

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Fragment 40

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This very badly damaged piece was found on the north side of the dividing wall. It had not been documented before Kalinka wrote it up. ...

Fragment 39

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This fragment (not found by Usener or Cousin) is particularly badly damaged.     χαταγε[λώ] και εΐδ[ία τους     παραδεδθ[χέ[νο]υς [...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

The Destruction of the Inscription - Motivations?

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I am tempted to refer to the Inscription as one of the wonders of the late antique world but clearly from the lack of reference to it by ...

The Hellenistic Agora - Excavation and Identification

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The Esplanade is the misnomer that has long been applied to the older of the two agoras in Oenoanda. The older, Hellenistic, agora lies mo...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Scripta Privata

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Some authors, notably Martin Ferguson Smith (MFS), use the nomenclature scripta privata to group together a miscellaneous collection of p...
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