The stele of Polybios: art, text and context in second-century BC Greece
Two large stelai were erected in Mantinea and Kleitor, in Arkadia, in honour of the historian Polybios. They both bore identical inscriptions in verse: τοῦτο Λυκόρτα παιδὶ πόλις περικαλλὲς ἄγαλμα| ἀντὶ καλῶν ἔργων εἵσατο Πουλυβίωι (the polis for the son of Lykortas set up this excellent statue, for...
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De Gruyter
2017
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