Description: Welcome to Greek Inscriptions Online (GIO), a website which publishes translations of Ancient Greek inscriptions into Modern Greek.
Welcome to Greek Inscriptions Online (GIO), a website which publishes translations of Ancient Greek inscriptions into Modern Greek.
For a Modern Greek version of the GIO home page, click here .
Inscriptions on stone are the most important documentary source for the history of the Ancient Greek world. Dating from the 8th century BCE through to the end of antiquity, Greek epigraphic texts are available to scholars in Ancient Greek in Inscriptiones Graecae (IG) I (up to 403/2 BCE) and II (after 403/2 BCE), updated annually by the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (SEG) (access by subscription), and in the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) . However, hardly any of the inscriptions are available