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Eleusis. The Inscriptions on Stone. Documents of the Sanctuary of the Two Goddesses andPublic Documents of the Deme by K. ClintonReview by: Andrew J. BaylissThe Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 127 (2007), p. 204

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Aristoxenus' pproachhad much relevance n theMiddleAgesor theearlymodern eriod. It wouldbeunfair ocriticize erfornot xtendinger nalysis fthe nfluence f Aristoxenuseyond he ateclassicalperiod.However,hemight ave hinted t the onsid-erable mount fscholarshiphat as been devoted o

later eriods,nd nparticularo the ffect fthe edis-covery f Aristoxenus' armonics irectly,hroughLatin ranslation1562)and, ventuallyn edition f heGreek ext1615). Herbook s essentially compre-hensive ccount f thewritingsf Aristoxenusnd hisinfluencenantiquity,s is appropriateor he eries nwhich t hasbeenpublished.As such, t s a valuablecontributiono classical tudies.

CHARLES BURNETT

Warburgnstitute,niversityfLondoncharles.burnettssas.ac.uk

CLINTON (K.) Eleusis. The Inscriptions n Stone.Documents of the Sanctuary of the TwoGoddesses and Public Documents f the Deme.

(The Archaeological ocietyat AthensLibrary236).TheArchaeologicalocietytAthens,005. 2vols. IA: pp. xx + 499; IB: pp. 307. 130.9608145481.

Clinton'smuch-anticipateddition f nscriptionsromEleusis s a welcome ontributiono the

cholarshipn

one ofthemostfamous thenian emes. C. has been

workingn Eleusiniannscriptionsince1966-7, ndhas beenpreparing ublicationf the entire ollectionfrom leusis since 1973. Eleusis was the site of an

importantanctuaryf Demeter nd Persephone,ndhomeof the annualfestival f theMysterieswhichattractednitiatesrom he ntire reek-speakingorld.This almost omprehensiveollection f the nscrip-tionsfrom leusiswill be essential eading orAtticepigraphists,s wellas ancient istoriansnd archaeo-logistsworkingn Eleusis ndAthens.

Vol. IAcomprises

86inscriptions

685 inGreek,one nLatin);vol. B comprises07plateswithmagesofmost f he exts.Thetexts nvol. Aaredividedntofive ections: os 1-135date from a 575 BC to theendofthefourthenturyC; nos 136-79 omprisehe

fourth-centuryinancial ocuments;os 180-674datefrom he hirdenturyC to the hirdenturyD; nos675-9compriseheboundary arkers;os 680-6com-

prise hedocumentsrom he anctuaryfAsclepius.Each text s clearlyetout,with ull etails fpre-

vious ditions rovided,longwith full escriptionfthe contextn which he nscriptionas found. This

format illprove ery seful or xpertsnthefield fepigraphy. . clearly pells ut he onventionsefol-lows and hismethodology,hichwillhelpmake thevolumes ess ntimidatingor on-experts.

Ofthe686 texts,ome147 arepreviously npub-lished.Themostnotable f thenew texts reno.68,

fourth-centuryecree of the Eleusiniandemesmen;no.180, nhonoraryecree f the soldiers tationedtEleusisdated a 279-266; ndno.272, statue asefor

KingAriobarzanesI of Cappadociaand his family.Thesetexts resufficientlyellpreservedndimpor-tant o be relevant or istorianss well as epigraphists.

The majorityf thenewtexts, owever,reveryfragmentarytatue ases. Most consist fonly fewwords, ndmanyhaveonlya handful f letters.Assuch,most fthese ew extswillprove f imitednter-est oanyone ther han pecialistsn Attic pigraphy.

C. provides etailednalysis f omekey exts,.g.the fourth-centuryinancialdocuments. However,whentreating reviously ublished exts,C. seldomprovides ignificantewreadings eyond onfirmingdottedettersndpreviousestorations,ndminor ddi-tions romhe dgesofthe tones.Perhaps he ome-what imited ature fnewreadingss largely result f

thepoorcondition fmany f the exts C. notes hatthe stoneswere exposedto cementdustemanatingfrom henearbyement actory'5).

Some minor riticismsught o be raised. It isunfortunatehat heplates n vol. IB (whilstubstantialinnumber)rebyno means xhaustive,nd he icturesare ofvarying uality some areespecially lear e.g.

pl.122no.241a, l.133no.268, l.178no.399), utmanyarequite lurrede.g.pl.25no.53, l.183no.421, l.233no.502-2)orobscured y shadows e.g. pl.99no.195,

pl.208no.470,pl.211no.473f).Theseproblemsouldarguably ave been avoidedgiven he ongduration fthephotographicrocesswhich ommencedn 1975.One couldperhaps lso criticize he omission f thedetails of the fundamental pigraphic corporaInscriptiones raecae and Supplementumpigraph-icumGraecumfrom he istof abbreviations,hichdoes not ssist nmakinghese olumesmore ccessibletonon-expertsn thefield.

Aside from heserelativelyminor oncerns, .'svolumes rea most aluable ontributionothefield fAttic pigraphy. he arrival f vol. II,whichwillpro-vide a full ommentaryn the nscriptions,illbe thekey ounlockinghefull alue of these olumes.

ANDREW J. BAYLISS

UniversityfNottingham

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