The epigraphy and history of Boeotia : new finds, new prospects
Contents Preface Abbreviations List of Contributors Introduction Section I: Boeotian History: New Interpretations 1. Hans Beck: "Ethnic Identity and Integration in Boeotia: the Evidence of the Inscriptions (6th and 5th Centuries BC)" 2. Emily Mackil: "Creating a Common Polity in Boeotia" 3. Denis Knoepfler: "EPSILONCHITHETAOMICRONNUDELTAEPSILON TAUALPHASIGMA BETAOMICRONIOTAOMEGATAUIOTAALPHASIGMA: The Expansion of the Boeotian Koinon towards Central Euboia in the Early Third Century BC" 4. Adrian Robu: "Between Macedon, Achaea and Boeotia: The Epigraphy of Hellenistic Megara Revisited" 5. Christel Muller: "A Koinon after 146? Reflections on the Political and Institutional Situation of Boeotia in the Second Half of the Second Century BC" Section II: The New Epigraphy of Thebes 6. Vassilios L. Aravantinos: "The Inscriptions from the Sanctuary of Herakles at Thebes: An Overview" 7. Angelos P. Matthaiou: "Four Inscribed Bronze Tablets from Thebes: Preliminary Notes." 8. Nikolaos Papazarkadas: "Two New Epigrams from Thebes" 9. Margherita Bonanno-Aravantinos: "New Inscribed Funerary Monuments from Thebes" Section III: Boeotian Epigraphy: Beyond Thebes 10. Albert Schachter: "Tlepolemos in Boeotia" 11. Yannis Kalliontzis: "Digging in Storerooms for Inscriptions: An Unpublished Casualty List from Plataia in the Museum of Thebes and the Memory of War in Boeotia" 12. Robert Pitt: "Just As It Has Been Written: Inscribing Building Contracts at Lebadeia" 13. Claire Grenet: "Manumission in Hellenistic Boeotia: New Considerations on the Chronology of the Inscriptions" 14. Isabelle Pernin: "Land Administration and Property Law in the Proconsular Edict from Thisbe (Syll.3 884)" Index Locorum General Index
Tales of Epic Ancestry: Boiotian Collective Identity in the Late Archaic and Early Classical Periods
POSITIONS HELD Temple University Professor Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies Department Chair, Greek & Roman Classics Director, Intellectual Heritage Program Associate Professor Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge Pennsylvania State University Associate Professor Assistant Professor Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome Assistant Professor
Reid on Hypotheses and the Ether; A Reassessment
In recent years historians of science have come to see that Thomas Reid’s Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man had a profound impact on the development of British methodological thought in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Larry Laudan has argued that Reid was “the first major British philosopher to take Newton’s opinions on induction, causality, and hypotheses seriously”; and that Reid was thereby instrumental in changing the character of British methodological discourse in the Enlightenment.(1) Geoffrey Cantor has examined in detail the influence of Reid’s critique of ether theories and hypotheses in the Essays on leading protagonists in the nineteenth-century debates surrounding the wave theory of light,(2) and Richard Olson has traced the origins of the scientific style of British physics in the Victorian period to the writings of Reid and other Common Sense philosophers. (3) As well as delineating Reid’s influence, Laudan, Cantor, and Olson have attempted to identify the problems to which he addressed himself in articulating his methodology, and they have analysed with some care the internal structure of his methodological views. Thanks to the work of these historians, therefore, we have a fairly comprehensive picture of Reid’s methodology and its fortunes in the nineteenth century.