How the Greek decree formula spread, in time and space · 希腊政令套语之时空传布
Dated decree inscriptions by century. The honorific decree explodes in the Hellenistic age — peaking in the 2nd c. BCE — then collapses as the autonomous polis gives way to Rome.
The 22 commonest formulae × century. Each row is a clause of the decree machine — its cell intensity shows when it was in use. Read down a column to see the decree's anatomy in any age; across a row to see a clause live and fade.
The same clauses × region. Attica is the hearth; the Aegean islands, Asia Minor, and central Greece take up the formula as the epigraphic habit of the decree spreads across the Greek world.