The female of the steles could be labelled a Lady of Death - indeed a Lady of Victory who is referred to in a wide range of texts, from Sanskrit epics to
epigraphical royal eulogies in Tamil.
Other early philosophers, notably the advocate of humanism and ethical relativism Protagoras, bump up against ordinary Athenians for whom we have scraps of
epigraphical evidence, such as a man named Simon, who was perhaps the proprietor of a cobbler shop Socrates frequented.
The second phase begins with the Establishment of calibrated Political Kingdoms.Though inscriptions and structural remains form the Major Sources for the study of the same, since the present Study is based on the
Epigraphical Data alone, structural details are not touched.
Some writers today call the women deacons of the early church "deaconesses," even where ancient literary or
epigraphical (tombstone) references specifically call them "deacons."
Historical Scholarship in the Late Renaissance, where he asserts that Morales' work can be seen as "marking something of a transition in the use of
epigraphical evidence: as well as citing many inscriptions," and making "some theoretical reflections on their use, indicating both that inscriptions could be forged, and that they were not simply texts" (2005: 124).
It turns to evidence not only from the literary record, but
epigraphical sources and votive deposits.
Thus, Pagan's chapter on the Catilinarian conspiracy is almost entirely concerned with Sallust's monograph on the event and only glances at the Ciceronian tradition, her chapter on the Bacchanalian affair is devoted to Livy's narrative rather than to the
epigraphical record of the event, and so on.
IF TYERMAN IS, TO BE FRANK, A VERY POOR stylist, he nevertheless offers many things new and insightful--besides drawing on a half-century's worth of archaeological, historical, and
epigraphical scholarship since the time of Runciman.
Strauss begins with the abduction of Helen and ends with the Trojan horse and the sack of Troy, retelling the story by following Homer's narrative while footnoting parallels from contemporary archaeological, graphic, and
epigraphical material to support the stories of the Iliad and Odyssey.