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.

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I stumbled across what appears to be the unpublished correspondence of Diskin Clay, the American academic that wrote the extensive article...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