Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica - Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica. Second Edition
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This second edition of the Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica (IGCyr) and the Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica (GVCyr) updates two corpora published online in 2017, the first collecting all the inscriptions of Greek (VII-I centuries B.C.) Cyrenaica, the second gathering the Greek metrical texts of all periods (VI B.C.-VI A.D.). These new critical editions of inscriptions from Cyrenaica are part of the international project Inscriptions of Libya (InsLib). They now include all the inscriptions known to us in February 2024, coming from this area of the ancient Mediterranean world, assembled in a single online and open access publication.
In this section you will find general information about the project IGCyr-GVCyr. First of all the origin of the project and the history of its evolution into the wider international project Inscriptions of Libya (InsLib) are presented; secondly the composition of the corpora and the specifics of the digital edition are described; next you will find a sketch of the history of Greek Cyrenaica; then an outline of the history of scholarship regarding archaeological and epigraphic research about Cyrenaica.
The project
A comprehensive corpus of the inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica was a longstanding desideratum among the scholars of the ancient world. Greek inscriptions from Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Cyrenaica were up to 2017 scattered among many different, sometimes outdated publications, while new texts had been discovered and edited in between. After the launching of the 1st edition, some errors were detected, new finds and some neglected fragments were available for addition, further studies were published, making a second edition desirable. Moreover, with the new tool EFES, implementing a digital epigraphical corpus was made much easier.
How to cite this publication: Dobias-Lalou, Catherine. Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica. Second Edition in collaboration with Alice Bencivenni, Hugues Berthelot, with help from Simona Antolini, Silvia Maria Marengo, and Emilio Rosamilia; Dobias-Lalou, Catherine. Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica. Second Edition in collaboration with Alice Bencivenni, with help from Joyce M. Reynolds and Charlotte Roueché. Bologna: Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, 2024. ISBN 9788854971370, https://doi.org/10.60760/unibo/igcyrgvcyr2. Recommended abbreviations: IGCyr2 and GVCyr2.
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