Dedicated to Greek: using inscriptions in elementary Greek
2003; Classical Association of the Middle West and South; Volume: 98; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2327-5812
Autores Tópico(s)Lexicography and Language Studies
ResumoLanguage, civilization, mythology, history--all have been affected by the wealth of epigraphical material which has been published in the last 150 years or so.' Yet epigraphy remains isolated somehow, and is still considered by some to be nothing more than an ancillary discipline, of interest only to the specialist and historian. The reality is that epigraphy presents us with firsthand texts from the ancient world.2 Inscriptions constitute our main evidence direct from the ancients themselves for many aspects of their world, and as such they are a powerful teaching tool. They can help our students connect to ancient language and culture in a variety of ways. If you are not now using inscriptions in your classes, I hope that this paper encourages you to do so. If you are already using inscriptions, then perhaps you may find something new here. Anecdotal evidence leads me to believe that many people think that inscriptions not only are difficult to find, but also use difficult Greek. Let me address the difficulty of finding an inscription first. The standard corpus, Inscriptiones Graecae, is now in its third edition. The second edition is available at a good price, however, and most college libraries will have this set.3 Two other collections will also be valuable and are readily available. Marcus Tod's collection, Greek Historical Inscriptions, Ares Press, Chicago, 1985, and R. Meiggs and D. Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford 1969 (rev. paperback 1989),
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