Oikistes : : studies in constitutions, colonies, and military power in the ancient world, offered in honor of A.J. Graham / / edited by Vanessa B. Gorman and Eric W. Robinson.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 234
• TeilnehmendeR: Graham, A. J. & Robinson, Eric W.,; Gorman, Vanessa B., 1963-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 234.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 396 pages) :; illustrations, maps.

This Festschrift includes a range of essays, mirroring the diverse abilities of the honoree, A. J. Graham, in ancient Greek and Roman constitutional history, military history, and colonization. The articles feature discussions of individual problems in politics, epigraphy, historiography, numismatics, and archaeology, including topics such as the Battle of Actium, the Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus, the Spartan constitution, democracy in Camarina, Persian coinage, mercenary soldiers, the origins of both Greek and Roman historical writing, cult practice at Berezan, the Athenian Long Walls, the Peloponnesian War, and various aspects of Greek colonization and Roman provincial policy.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Vanessa B. Gorman and Eric W. Robinson -- INTRODUCTION / Martin Ostwald -- CURRICULUM VITAE OF AJ. GRAHAM / Vanessa B. Gorman and Eric W. Robinson -- THE PREHISTORY OF GREEK CHRONOGRAPHY / Charles W. Hedrick -- Nóµoς Δεσπóτης SPARTAN OBEDIENCE AND ATHENIAN LAWFULNESS IN FIFTH-CENTURY THOUGHT / Ellen Greenstein Millender -- LEAD PLATES AND THE CASE FOR DEMOCRACY IN FIFTH-CENTURY BC CAMARINA / Eric W. Robinson -- REREADING THE SENATUS CONSULTUM DE BACCHANALIBUS OF 186 BC: GENDER ROLES IN THE ROMAN MIDDLE REPUBLIC / HARRIET I. FLOWER -- DATING AND ARRANGING THE ROMAN HISTORY OF VALERIUS ANTIAS / Gary Forsythe -- THE REGULATION OF INTER-COMMUNITY RELATIONS IN THE PROVINCES AND THE POLITICAL INTEGRATION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (27 BC-AD 238) / Graham Burton -- MYTH INTO CULT: ALEXANDRA/KASSANDRA IN LAKONIA / Gina Salapata -- INTERPRETING THE BEREZAN BONE GRAFFITO / Lada Onyshkevych -- MILESIAN DECREES OF ISOPOUTEIA AND THE REFOUNDATION OF THE CITY, CA. 479 BCE / Vanessa B. Gorman -- EXPLORING THE VALIDITY OF THE CONCEPT OF 'FOUNDATION': A VISIT TO MEGARA HYBLAIA / Irad Malkin -- THE SOCIAL STATUS OF THE MERCENARY IN ARCHAIC GREECE / Philip Kaplan -- THUCYDIDES ON PLATAEA, THE BEGINNING OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, AND THE 'ATTIC QUESTION' / Mark Munn -- THUCYDIDES 7.63.3 ON THE SAILORS 'CONSIDERED' ATHENIAN / Karl Maurer -- AGIS THREATENS ATHENS: THE PIAUSIBIUTY OF DIODORUS 13.72.3-73.2 / Scott M. Rusch -- NUMISMATIC PROBLEMS IN THE ACHAEMENID WEST: THE UNDUE MODERN INFLUENCE OF 'TISSAPHERNES' / Cynthia Harrison -- WHAT ATHENIAN FORTIFICATIONS WERE DESTROYED IN 404 BC? / David H. Conwell -- RECONSIDERING THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM-AGAIN / William M. Murray -- TWO NABATAEAN AND ROMAN SITES IN SOUTHERN JORDAN: KHIRBET EL-QIRANA AND KHIRBET EL-KHALDE / David Kennedy -- INDEX / Vanessa B. Gorman and Eric W. Robinson -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE / H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , D.M. Schenkeveld , P.H. Schrijvers and S.R. Slings.