Public records and archives in classical Athens / James P. Sickinger.
Public records and archives in classical Athens / James P. Sickinger.
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1999.
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N352.3870938/1
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English
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x, 274 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Thesmothetai, Drakon, and Solon. I. Thesmothetai. II. Drakon. III. Solon. IV. Conclusion -- Ch. 2. Documents and Records in the Sixth Century. I. Sixth-Century Secretaries. II. Didascalic Records and Long-Term Preservation. III. The Archon List. IV. Written Records and Kleisthenes' Reforms. V...
II. Archival Documents and Legislation. III. Archives and Historians. IV. Conclusion.
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Publisher
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1999.
Place of Publication
North Carolina
Date Published
c1999.
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"In this book, James Sickinger explores the use and preservation of public records especially laws and decrees, in the ancient Athenian democracy of the archaic and classical periods."--BOOK JACKET. "This book challenges the growing orthodoxy in classical scholarship that characterizes Athenian literacy and record keeping as crude and primitive bef...
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Public records and archives in classical Athens / James P. Sickinger.
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Studies in the history of Greece and Rome.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-266) and index.
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c1999.
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N352.3870938/1
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74VvW65DR6BA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvW65DR6BA
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ISBN
0807824690 (alk. paper)
9780807824696 (alk. paper)
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352.38709385
MMS ID
991011893549702626
