Mabel Lang

Mabel Louise Lang (November 12, 1917 – July 21, 2010) was an American archaeologist, classical scholar, and professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College.

Quotes

• In epigraphy, it is a well-established principle that in restoring an inscription the shortest possible line is to be preferred. The principle is honored not so much because short lines are known to have been particularly favored (they were not) nor because the document in question is likely to have been expressed in the briefest possible terms, but in order to keep to a minimum the restored material. And for its purpose the principle is admirable, since readers of the restored inscription can be confident that, although what they read may bear comparatively little relation to the original document, at least it includes the fewest possible additional letters or words necessary to make sense of what remains to us on stone.
  • (1972). "Cleon as the Anti-Pericles". Classical Philology 67 (3): 159–169. DOI:10.1086/365862.

• It is only from the end of the 6th century b.c. that we have firm evidence for Asklepios-worship anywhere; concerning his previous existence there is only a tangle of myths which seem to reflect conflicting claims and rival theories. Certainly in the Iliad Asklepios appears only as the other of the the heroes Machaon and Podalirios, who both share in the fighting and are valued as physicians.
  • Cure and Cult in Ancient Corinth: A Guide to the Asklepieion. 1977. p. 4. ISBN 9780876616703. 

• One of the very earliest uses to which the art of writing was put, along with alphabetic exercises and marks of ownership, was sexual insult and obscenity.
  • Graffiti in the Athenian Agora. 1988. p. 5. ISBN 9780876616338. 

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Mabel Lang on Wikipedia