Athenian Democracy in Transition: Attic Letter-Cutters of 340 to 290 B.C.: 20 (Hellenistic Culture and Society) - Hardcover

Furthering his approach to classifying and interpreting epigraphical data in his earlier work, the author here studies the inscriptions from the time of Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Demosthenes and Demetrios. He shows how the "handwriting" of individual stonecutters can be identified. Detailed study of the hands in this largest group of primary documents has enabled the author to offer a number of insights, such as reassessing the career of Demetrios of Phaleron and taking issue with the commonly accepted view that Athenian democracy ended in 322 BC with the defeat by the Macdeonians at Krannon.

Stephen V. Tracy is Professor and Chairman of Classics at Ohio State University, Columbus, and author of Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C. (California, 1990)