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.

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Diskin Clay's Encounter with Oinoanda

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I stumbled across what appears to be the unpublished correspondence of Diskin Clay, the American academic that wrote the extensive article...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

A BMCR Review - The Epicurean Inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda: Ten Years of New Discoveries and Research

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Jürgen Hammerstaedt, Martin Ferguson Smith,  The Epicurean Inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda: Ten Years of New Discoveries and Research...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Fragments 5 & 6

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These two pieces constitute related parts of the texts and the stones were in excellent condition (except for some obscuring of the text) ...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

The Economy of Oenoanda

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It is probably useful to put Oenoanda in context first. It was a hilltop city that was very outside the Roman model, moreover it also was...
Friday, March 11, 2016

Donors to the Storehouse Project

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In the Spring of 2010, when the Turkish authorities finally gave permission for the erection of a storehouse had been granted, the archae...

Oenoanda's Political Context

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It might be useful to put the "city" of Oenoanda is some sort of political context. Essentially it was a large town, though I a...
Monday, March 7, 2016

The Inscription's Debris Field

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The term "debris field" is most associated today with crashed airliners, rather than archaeological sites. But it is particularl...
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