The Establishment of a Central Archive at Athens

Boegehold, Alan L.

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“…The stele recording Damonon's athletic victories (IG V.i.213 = JeVery 1990: 196-97, 201 no. 52) was also found in the precinct, along with another inscription that JeVery (1990: 192, 199 Boegehold;Thomas 1989Thomas : 34-94, 1994Sickinger. 39. It is not clear whether Hellanicus (FGrH 4 F 85a; cf.…”

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Spartan Literacy Revisited

Millender¹

2001

Classical Antiquity

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Spartan Literacy Revisited

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2001

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“…I .6). '3 Boegehold (1972). The creation of an archive may itself have contributed to a perceived need for some kind of alphabetic standardisation, though there is scant evidence that the documents stored therein (whether on stelai, wood or papyrus) were consulted or cited until well into the fourth century: Thomas ( I 992) 68-72.…”

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Archinus, Eucleides and the Reform of the Athenian Alphabet

D’Angour

1999

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies

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In 40312 BC Archinus of the Attic deme Koile proposed a psi?phisnzu or decree calling for the reform of the Old Attic alphabet, as traditionally used almost exclusively on Athenian official documents, to conform with the Ionic usage which was becoming the standard alphabet of the Greek oikoumenC.2 The main elements of the change involved the formal establishment of the character H to denote Ctu instead of consonantal h, and the use of SZ as a long vowel in distinction to 0.j In addition, the Ionian sigmatic compounds E and Y were adopted in place of the traditional spelling which employed the digraphs XZ and CDZ4

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