posted by Hannah Cornwell
Cédric Brélaz - The Corpus of the Roman colony of Philippi: some new inscriptions.
On Monday 13th February Cédric Brélaz (University of Strasbourg) spoke about his current research for the new Corpus des inscriptions grecques et latines de Philippi, and outlined the social and demographic contexts within which the institutions of the colony were set.
The Corpus des inscription grecques et latines de Philippi will consist of three volumes: 1)deals with the Macedonian city,covering its foundation under Philip II, through the Hellenistic period; 2) deals with the Roman Imperial period; and 3) deals with the inscriptions from the Christian Byzantine town at Philippi. Brélaz’s research focuses on the inscriptions concerned with the public life and Roman state of the Roman colony of Philippi (Vol. 2. 1), which number 220 in total, with 90 inscriptions which are still to be published.
Brélaz spoke about the linguistic and cultural interactions that existed between the colony of Philippi and the surrounding area. He illustrated the development of the influence and interaction of the Greek communities on the Latin speaking Roman community over the course of the 1st to 3rd centuries A.D.