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Завещание Эпиктеты как источник по истории античных Мусеев эпохи эллинизма
Testamentum Epictetae as a Historical Record of the Ancient Hellenistic Museums

Author(s): Valeriy P. Porshnev
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Cultural history, History of ideas, Ancient World
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»

Summary/Abstract: It is a study of the well-known epigraphic document of III c. BC, the so-called Testamentum Epictetae found on the island of Thera (Santorini). The text served in numerous researches as a source for dialectal peculiarities of the Ancient Greek and history studies of the Hellenistic law. The present research is a different approach to the document, which provides evidence for such a phenomenon in the ancient culture as museum and the cult of muses associated with it.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 300-318
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Russian