Greek Inscriptions

Extract

I have been invited by the editors of Greece and Rome to contribute to its pages a series of notes on recently discovered Greek inscriptions, indicating briefly their significance for classical studies but avoiding technicalities. I gladly accept the invitation, alike because of the fascination which inscriptions exercise for myself, in common with many teachers and students of the classics, and also because of the value of the epigraphical evidence for every aspect of the thought, the speech, and the activities of the ancient world. I shall select for this purpose inscriptions short enough to be transcribed in full and shall prefer those which are published in periodicals or books not everywhere accessible in this country. For the sake of those, and I hope they may be not a few, who wish to pursue the study further, I shall add to each note a select bibliography.