Research Article

Antipatros of Derbe, Akmoneia and Rome in a Notebook of William Mitchell Ramsay

Volume: 6 December 15, 2020
  • Marcus Chın
  • Leah Lazar
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Antipatros of Derbe, Akmoneia and Rome in a Notebook of William Mitchell Ramsay

Abstract

This article presents new readings in a late Hellenistic honorific inscription found at Uşak, recorded by William Mitchell Ramsay in 1914. The inscription, erected by an unidentified Phrygian community, honours Antipatros of Derbe, a Lycaonian dynast known from passages in Cicero and Strabo. After presenting a revised text and translation, the authors discuss the unpublished rea-dings and explore the historical significance of this fragmentary and enigmatic inscription. They build on previous discussions of Antipatros’ role as a supra-civic intermediary between Asia Minor and Rome but also explore what this text, somewhat unusual in its first century B.C. context for its honouring of a foreign individual, can tell about the development of civic culture in Phrygia in the late Hellenistic period.

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Thanks

We would especially like to thank Peter Thonemann (for initiating and supporting our study of Ramsay’s notebooks), Charles Crowther, Martin Hallmannsecker, Juliane Zachhuber, and audience members at the British Epigraphic Society Meeting in Cambridge in December 2018 for their comments and advice.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Linguistics

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Marcus Chın This is me
0000-0003-0573-9341
United Kingdom

Leah Lazar This is me
0000-0003-4633-8253
United Kingdom

Publication Date

December 15, 2020

Submission Date

August 20, 2020

Acceptance Date

September 14, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Volume: 6

APA
Chın, M., & Lazar, L. (2020). Antipatros of Derbe, Akmoneia and Rome in a Notebook of William Mitchell Ramsay. PHILIA, 6, 42-52. https://doi.org/10.36991/PHILIA.202003
AMA
1.Chın M, Lazar L. Antipatros of Derbe, Akmoneia and Rome in a Notebook of William Mitchell Ramsay. PHILIA. 2020;6:42-52. doi:10.36991/PHILIA.202003
Chicago
Chın, Marcus, and Leah Lazar. 2020. “Antipatros of Derbe, Akmoneia and Rome in a Notebook of William Mitchell Ramsay”. PHILIA 6 (December): 42-52. https://doi.org/10.36991/PHILIA.202003.
EndNote
Chın M, Lazar L (December 1, 2020) Antipatros of Derbe, Akmoneia and Rome in a Notebook of William Mitchell Ramsay. PHILIA 6 42–52.
IEEE
[1]M. Chın and L. Lazar, “Antipatros of Derbe, Akmoneia and Rome in a Notebook of William Mitchell Ramsay”, PHILIA, vol. 6, pp. 42–52, Dec. 2020, doi: 10.36991/PHILIA.202003.
ISNAD
Chın, Marcus - Lazar, Leah. “Antipatros of Derbe, Akmoneia and Rome in a Notebook of William Mitchell Ramsay”. PHILIA 6 (December 1, 2020): 42-52. https://doi.org/10.36991/PHILIA.202003.
JAMA
1.Chın M, Lazar L. Antipatros of Derbe, Akmoneia and Rome in a Notebook of William Mitchell Ramsay. PHILIA. 2020;6:42–52.
MLA
Chın, Marcus, and Leah Lazar. “Antipatros of Derbe, Akmoneia and Rome in a Notebook of William Mitchell Ramsay”. PHILIA, vol. 6, Dec. 2020, pp. 42-52, doi:10.36991/PHILIA.202003.
Vancouver
1.Marcus Chın, Leah Lazar. Antipatros of Derbe, Akmoneia and Rome in a Notebook of William Mitchell Ramsay. PHILIA. 2020 Dec. 1;6:42-5. doi:10.36991/PHILIA.202003