Louis Robert en sa forge : ébauche d’un mémoire resté inédit sur l’histoire controversée de deux concours grecs, les Trophônia et les Basileia à Lébadée

Knoepfler, Denis

doi:10.3406/crai.2008.92234

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“…In section 1 ('Boeotian history: new interpretations') four contributions enrich our knowledge of the confederacy from the sixth century BC down to the Late Hellenistic period, with papers on ethnic identity (Beck 2014; on this topic, see also Larson 2007), common polity (Mackil 2014; see also Mackil 2013) and the expansion towards Euboea (Knoepfler 2014). The study by Christel Müller on the post-146 BC koinon (Müller 2014) reaches the conclusion that the Boeotian League was revived only late in the first century BC and not around 80-70 BC, as recently defended by Knoepfler (2010). This paper complements Müller's earlier research on the districts of the Hellenistic confederacy, which has led her to demonstrate, inter alia, the dominant role of Thebes in the early second century BC (Müller 2011).…”

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Recent epigraphic research in central Greece: Boeotia

Marchand

2014

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The past ten years have been particularly prolific for research in Boeotian epigraphy: excavations and museum work carried out by the ephoreias, along with the activities of international projects such as the Boeotia Project, have yielded many exciting new documents and generated a very dynamic scholarly production. Epigraphy is therefore particularly well served in Boeotia, as the prominent place given to inscriptions in the recently refurbished museums of Chaironeia and, in particularly, Schimatari — and, no doubt, in the future new museum of Thebes too — exemplifies further. The present synopsis cannot cover the entirety of scholarship produced over the past ten years, but it is hoped that it provides a fair overview. Instead of a geographical approach, a thematic arrangement has been preferred.

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“…176 Migeotte 2010 According to an inventory of the sanctuary's property engraved on the stele of Xenarchos (Turner 1996, 108). 178 Venue for the anointment of athletes prior to their participation in the Basileia games : Knoepfler 2008: Knoepfler , 1441 Analogous case at Marmara on Mount Parnassos, where cult remains went unrecorded by Pausanias: Partida 2017b, 224. 180 "… and a temple of Zeus Basileus.…”

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“…121 Partida 2015, 34-36. 122 Schachter 1981 Knoepfler 2008Knoepfler , 1439Knoepfler -1440 Which continued into the early Roman period, judging from the agonistic lists naming participants from exotic locales: Turner 1996, 106. 125 Robert cited byKnoepfler 2008Knoepfler , 1449…”

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The Temple of Zeus at Lebadea. The architecture and the semantics of a colossus

Kanellopoulos¹,

Partida²

2021

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The Temple of Zeus Basileus at Lebadea rests almost unknown. Its physical remains and date (not systematically explored so far) pose a riddle, as regards not only the circumstances which entailed its presumed incompletion but also the historic context in which the commencement of construction can be embedded. The dimensions of the krepis alone render this edifice highly interesting in the history of temple-building. The in situ preserved architectural elements suggest that here was begun the erection of what was at the time the largest peristasis in Mainland Greece. The temple stylobate measures 200 feet/podes in length, with a lower column diameter equal to just over two metres, and the longest interaxial spacings and corresponding architraves of its time. By increasing the length and height of the structure, the architects achieved its qualification as colossal. This qualification is revealed from the uniquefor-the-Classical-period length of 14 columns along the peristasis, with visible euthynteria and hypeuthynteria courses. As shown in this paper, this colossal structure abided by the rules of Doric design. Ascribing the unfinished state of the temple probably to financial shortcoming and/or military adventures, Pausanias did comment on its ambitious, gigantic size. The level of construction eventually reached is another focal point of our investigation. The study of the Temple of Zeus Basileus brings out the multifaceted notion of the term “monumentality”, tightly related to visual impact. One of the aims of its commissioners would have been to establish a landmark on the summit where Zeus was probably co-worshipped with Trophonios, the Boeotian hero-prophet. Since the temple in question, as we propose, most probably commemorated both a grandiose military victory in the 3rd century BC and the contemporary political situation, its imposing volume, along with the aesthetic effect of bichromy, were meant to perpetuate the overtone of these events within the ambience of the sacred Lebadea. Another facet of monumentality involves the respective building programme, and it derives from epigraphical sources, namely a contract specifying construction details, with particular instructions already at the orthostate level, denoting that accuracy in execution safeguarded the high quality of ancient Greek architecture.

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Kalliontzis¹

2020

Contribution À L’épigraphie Et à l’histoire De La Béotie Hellénistique

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Louis Robert en sa forge : ébauche d’un mémoire resté inédit sur l’histoire controversée de deux concours grecs, les Trophônia et les Basileia à Lébadée

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