Stephen Tracy is very pleased to report that Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno posteriores. Ed. tertia. Pars I: Fasc. 5: Leges et decreta annorum 229/8–168/7 has just been published in Germany.  His collaborator and co-author of this major work is Voula N. Bardani.The work was done under the auspices of the Inscriptiones Graecae project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences; the publisher is Walter De Gruyter.

The fascicle publishes 325 laws and decrees from the years between 229/8 BC, the first year of independence from Macedonian occupation, and the end of the third Macedonian War in 168/7. Of particular significance are the honorary decrees for Athenian Prytaneis and Ephebes, and the functionaries of Hellenistic kings. Four extensive inscriptions from the Athenian Agora are also published here for the first time. Thanks to Tracy’s studies of “Attic letter-cutters”, the chronology of the decrees and the order of the Archons could be put on a firmer footing. The volume has ten pages of prefatory material and 293 pages of text.  The texts of the inscriptions are naturally in ancient Greek and the commentary is in Latin.  There is an exhaustive index to the inscriptions and eighty plates illustrating most of the stones.

Tracy is Emeritus Professor of Greek and Latin at Ohio State and the founder and first director of Ohio State’s Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies.  He is now at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.