Books by Georgios Tsolakis
Sverkos and Tsolakis provide a guide to the inscriptions published, mentioned, or discussed in th... more Sverkos and Tsolakis provide a guide to the inscriptions published, mentioned, or discussed in the volumes XLVI – LX (1996 – 2010) of Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum for scholars and students of Greek epigraphy. The Consolidated Concordances is a catalogue of references to inscriptions and their respective occurrences in the entries of SEG. By using this volume, the readers can find the corresponding entries of SEG where the first edition or later studies of inscriptions of their interest are presented. Moreover, Tsolakis has collected and compiled the epigraphic abbreviations both those used in SEG since volume XXVI and those included the “Liste des abréviations des éditions et ouvrages de référence pour l'épigraphie grecque alphabétique” ( GrEpiAbbr).
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This paper aims to provide a comparative approach to the society of Aphrodisias by examining the ... more This paper aims to provide a comparative approach to the society of Aphrodisias by examining the two upper social groups, ‘the first citizens’ (πρῶτοι πολίτες) and ‘the descendants of the men who co-founded the fatherland’ (ἀνδρῶν ἀπόγονον τῶν συνεκτι̣κότων τὴν πατρίδα). The analysis shall focus on the examination of the interaction between, on the one hand, their family tradition of holding offices and of performing benefactions, and on the other hand, public life from the first c. BC to the third c. AD. While the first social group is found in many Hellenistic poleis, the latter occurs only in Aphrodisias. These social groups were not explicitly defined and even though they are not equivalent, they did overlap at times (γένους πρώτου καὶ συνεκτικότος). As it is reflected in epigraphic texts, the members of these social groups were relying on their family tradition in order to establish their dominion over the political and social life of their polis, exemplified in a series of honorary decrees and honorary inscription. The inscriptions used the aforementioned and other formulaic expressions (as ἐκ προγόνων or διὰ προγόνων) stressing the offices, the benefactions, and the achievements of their ancestors. In that way the family history invocation functioned as a legitimizing mechanism for a citizen’s undertaking of political action and for bequeathing his social status to the next generation. The purpose of this paper is to further investigate the interrelations of these two social groups and how they bequeathed their wealth to their descendants, social networks, and the right to claim a leading role in political life. The non-institutionalized sociopolitical elite, which these families formed, was transformed during the late Hellenistic period in a de facto hereditary aristocracy.
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SESSION 3H: Joint AIA/APA Colloquium , 2019
Colloquium Overview Statement Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the study of multi... more Colloquium Overview Statement Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the study of multilingualism in ancient societies. Alongside the traditional investigation of linguistic phenomena , much more attention is now paid to multilingualism as an epiphenomenon of multiculturalism. Studies emphasize its sociolinguistic and historical implications , comprising cultural exchange, integration, and negotiation of identities. As a result, after the pioneering work of Wallace-Hadrill, the linguistic concepts of bilingualism and code-switching (itself a manifestation of bilingualism) have been applied also to the study of ethnically mixed civilizations and of their material culture. The epigraphic evidence is explicitly recognized as one of the most fruitful and revealing tools in the study of ancient multilingualism. Inscriptions enable scholars to obtain a deeper insight into the sociocultural background and, to a certain extent, into the intentionality of the producers, by virtue of the special care devoted to the preparation of epigraphic texts detectable in their physical aspects. The obvious corollary is that bilingual or multilingual inscriptions are the pre-eminent pieces of evidence in the study of identity negotiation in the context of a multilingual society. Drawing on this claim, and on the most recent acquisitions from the combination of sociolinguistic and material culture studies, the panel intends to explore the potentialities of epigraphy in the understanding of complex, multiethnic and multilingual societies in the eastern and western Mediterranean. The papers use a variety of epigraphic material and deal with several languages of the ancient Mediterranean. The first one examines the complex development of the multilingual environment of Cyprus, with particular regard to the political strategies underlying the use of syllabic Cypriot, Phoenician, and alphabetic Greek, in isolation or in combination, in the classical period. The next two papers address the various dynamics of multilingualism in ancient Lycia, focusing respectively on public decrees and private funerary inscriptions. Strategies of textual translation , power and prestige display, and identity negotiation are examined. The fourth paper integrates the discussion of multilingualism in ancient Anatolia by focusing on the relationship between textual and material aspects of the bilingual inscriptions from Caria, examined within the broader issue of Carian multicul-turalism as it emerges from the literary tradition and the archaeological material. The discussion moves then to the western Mediterranean, with the investigation of early writing practice in the multilingual and multicultural milieu of Sicily and southern Italy: elements of uniqueness and commonality are emphasized as evidence for the emergence of local epigraphic traditions in a diverse environment. The final paper, drawing primarily on the case of Rome, considers the ancient
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Abstract of paper to be given at the 119th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Amer... more Abstract of paper to be given at the 119th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. SESSION 4D
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SESSION 4D of the 2018 AIA/SCS Annual Meeting
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Society for Historical Archaeology, 2017
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