Athens and the Hellenistic kings (338-261 B.C.): The language of the decrees

Classical Quarterly

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 113-132

  Kralli, Ioanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

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EID: 60949401262     PISSN: 00098388     EISSN: 14716844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cq/50.1.113     Document Type: Article

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1. The war broke out in 268/7 and ended in the spring of 261: H.-J. Heinen, Untersuchungen zur hellenistischen Geschichte des 3. Jahrhunderts. v. Chr.: zur Geschichte der Zeit des Ptolemaios Keraunos und zum Chremonideischen Krieg. Hist. Einz. 20 (Wiesbaden, 1972), 95ff., 139-40, 180-9, 199-202.
2. For the date of the revolt see M. J. Osborne, 'Kallias, Phaidros and the revolt of Athens in 287 B.C.', ZPE 35 (1979), 182-94.
3. The erection of a statue for Philip marks a significant development in Athenian practice: only once in the past had a foreign king been awarded a statue (Evagoras of Salamis; see D. M. Lewis and R. S. Stroud, 'Athens honors King Evagoras of Salamis', Hesp. 48 [1979], 180-93).
4. E. Badian, 'The deification of Alexander the Great', in H. J. Dell (ed.), Ancient Macedonian Studies in Honour of C. F. Edson (Thessalonike, 1981), 27-71;
5. J. P. V. D. Balsdon, 'The divinity of Alexander', in G. T. Griffith (ed.), Alexander the Great: The Main Problems (Cambridge, 1966), 179-204;
6. G. L. Cawkwell, 'The deification of Alexander the Great', in I. Worthington (ed.), Ventures into Greek History (Oxford, 1994), 293-306.
7. 2 457 in 'Lykourgos again?', ZPE 42 (1981), 172-4.
8. 2 457 is lost).
9. K. Rosen, 'Ehrendekrete, Biographie und Geschichtsschreibung. Zum Wandel der griechischen Polis im frühen Hellenismus', Chiron 17 (1987), 277-92, at 292.
10. W. Will (Allien und Alexander: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Stadt von 338 bis 322 v. Chr. [Munich, 1983], 98-9) dismisses the decree of Stratokles as a late fourth-century forgery, aiming at creating a tradition of hostility towards Macedon. However, he offers no proof for this view; rather he discards this evidence because the image of Lykourgos resisting Alexander's plans does not fit the main (highly disputable) thesis of his book, according to which the whole programme of Lykourgos aimed at getting Athens into the new world empire created by Alexander.
11. 2 1485A and Athenian relations with Lysimachus', ZPE 31 (1978), 181-5.
12. also C. Franco, 'Lisimaco e Atene', in B. Virgilio (ed.), Studi ellenistichi (Pisa, 1990), 113-34;
13. on Athens' relations with the Ptolemies, see Habicht, Alhen in hellenistischer Zeit (Munich, 1994), 140-63.
14. contra G. Reger, 'Athens and Tenos in the early Hellenistic age', CQ n.s. 42 (1992), 365-83.
15. A. Erskine has observed the influence of Stoic ideals on Chremonides' decree (The Hellenistic Stoa. Political Thought and Action [London, 1990], 92-5);
16. there is also a fragment of the comic poet Alexis' Hypobolimaios where Ptolemy II, his wife Arsinoe, and are grouped together (T. Kock, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta III [Leipzig, 1880], fr. 244).
17. see F. W. Mitchel, 'Lykourgan Athens', Lectures in Memory of Louise Taft Semple II (Cincinnati, 1973), 165-214;
18. 2 1493, 1494 and 1495', TAPA 93 (1962), 213-29.
19. 2 402 + Agora I 4990', Hesp. 62 (1993), 249-51.
20. For the date and the identification of the king with Philip Arridaios, see A. B. Bosworth, 'Perdiccas and the kings', CQ n.s. 43 (1993), 420-7;
21. also E. Badian, 'A reply to Professor Hammond's article', ZPE 100 (1994), 388-90.
22. Demochares, FGrH 75, Fl.
23. Osborne (IV, 208) observes that 'from ca. 321/0 onwards there are almost no attested cases of the proxeny being granted without the accompaniment of some further privilege(s)'. The policy of the Athenian demos in this period has to be distinguished from the general trend in the Hellenistic world towards a massive increase in the number of proxenoi; for the political function of proxeny, see C. Marek, Die Proxenie (Frankfurt, Bern, and New York, 1984), 333-57, 387.
24. For the identification of Bithys and the date of the decree, see Burstein, 'Bithys';
25. 2 808', in E. M. Craik (ed.), 'Owls to Athens', Essays on Classical Subjects Presented to Sir Kenneth Dover (Oxford, 1990), 179-89;
26. M. B. Hatzopoulos, Une Donation du roi Lysimaque. Meletemata 5 (Athens, 1988), 18-21, 38-9.
27. On the hierarchy of Ptolemaic officials, see I. L. Merker, 'The Ptolemaic officials and the League of the Islanders', Historia 19 (1970), 141-60, at 148-51.
28. Many scholars believe that Philokles' title was 'nauarch'; contra H. Hauben, 'Philocles, King of the Sidonians and General of the Ptolemies', Orientalia Loraniensia Analecta 22 (1987), 413-27.
29. on the of the, see M. B. Hatzopoulos, Macedonian Institutions under the Kings I, Meletemata 22 (Athens, 1996), 287-9, 323-36.
30. On the other hand, P. Gauthier (REG 101 [1988], 363-4, no. 430) restores which is equally or even more plausible, given the fact that it is not recorded below in which capacity Medon has been dispatched now (at least not in the preserved part of the stone).
31. 2 561 and the court of Alexander IV, ZPE 24 (1977), 223-5;
32. C. Habicht, 'Literarische und epigraphische Überlieferung zur Geschichte Alexanders und seiner ersten Nachfolger', in Akten des VI. Intern. Kongr. für griech. und latein. Epigraphik (Munich, 1973), 367-77;
33. Objecting to this, G. Daux restores either or, alternatively, ('Adeimantos de Lampsaque et le renouvellement de la ligue de Corinthe par Démétrios Poliorcète', AEph [1953-4], I, 245-54).
34. For the importance of Adeimantos, see L. Robert, 'Adeimantos et la Ligue de Corinthe', Hellenica II (Paris, 1946), 15-33.
35. also G. De Sanctis 'Un decreto del Sinedrio di Corinto', RFIC, 19 n.s. (1941), 194-7.
36. For the date, see J. S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica. Hesp. Suppl. 14 (Princeton, 1975), 129-32;