Athens and Chalkis: A study in imperial control

Journal of Hellenic Studies

Volumn 122, Issue , 2002, Pages 134-143

  Ostwald, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 60950154809     PISSN: 00754269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3246208     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. See N.G.L. Hammond, Studies in Greek History (Oxford, 1973) 202, 222, who suggests that they crossed over to Attica with the Eretrians at the time of Marathon.
2. Their names are engraved on the 'Serpent Column', see R. Meiggs and D. Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century BC (2nd edn, Oxford 1969) (= ML) no. 27, 8.
3. See A.J. Graham, Colony and Mother City in Ancient Greece (2nd edn, Chicago 1983) 177;
4. so also E. Erxleben, 'Die Kleruchien auf Euböa und Lesbos und die Methoden der attischen Herrschaft im 5. Jh.', Klio 57 (1975) 83-100, esp. 88.
5. Diod. 11.88.3 (where the text is somewhat defective), and Paus. 1.27.5 with R. Meiggs, The Athenian Empire (Oxford 1972) 121-3.
6. Meiggs (n.14) 566-7; cf. also J.M. Balcer, The Athenian Regulations for Chalkis: Studies in Athenian Imperial Law (Historia Einzelschrift 33, Wiesbaden 1978) 21-2
7. and T.J. Figueira, Athens and Aegina in the Age of Imperial Colonization (Baltimore and London 1991) 258-60.
8. 3 40;
9. 3 (LACTOR 1, Harrow 1986) 157. The most recent monograph, that of Balcer, lacks a systematic bibliography.
10. 3 40, with D.M. Lewis' note on p. 44, who cites as the only dissenting voice the date of 424/3, proposed by H.B. Mattingly, 'Athens and Euboea', JHS 81 (1961) 124-32 (now reprinted in The Athenian Empire Restored (Ann Arbor, MI 1996) 53-67).
11. See M. Ostwald, From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London 1986) esp. 55-62.
12. Against ATL 3 (1950) 149-54, esp. 153 with n.17; cf. Balcer (n.16) 24: 'While no absolute evidence exists, it appears that an Athenian-supported democracy now replaced the defeated and exiled Chalkidian oligarchy.' See also below, p. 141 with nn.44 and 45.
13. So, rightly, Gomme, HCT 1.342; differently ML, p. 143, and G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, 'Notes on jurisdiction in the Athenian Empire II', CQ 11 (1961) 268-80, esp. 271-2. There is no good reason why in an Athenian decree the term should have a different connotation when applied to Chalkis than it had in Athens, especially when the decree adds (72-3).
14. ML no. 52, 74-6:. For the meaning of, see D.M. MacDowell, The Law in Classical Athens (London, 1978) 30-2.
15. ML no. 52, 52-7. The older controversies are well summarized by P. Gauthier, 'Les ΞENOI dans les textes athéniens de la seconde moitié du Ve siècle av. J.-C.', REG 84 (1971) 44-79, esp. 65-76
16. 2 39: "Aliens" in Chalcis', ZPE 24 (1977) 231-2;
17. 2 39', ZPE 25 (1977) 277-9;
18. K.J. Dover, 'in the Khalkis Decree', ZPE 30 (1978) 94 = Greek and the Greeks (Oxford 1987) 42;
19. 2 39, lines 52-57 yet again', ZPE 35 (1979) 287-91.
20. 3 40', ZPE 133 (2000) 61-74, esp. 61-2.
21. 2, 39. 52-57 and the "popularity" of the Athenian Empire', CSCA 10 (1977) 39-55, esp. 40-1.
22. For this interpretation of, see my discussion in 'Public expense: whose obligation?: Athens 600-454 BCE', Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 139 (1995) 368-79, esp. 375 with nn.25-7.
23. The obligations of foreign residents in the Greek world in the fifth and fourth centuries have been fully and convincingly discussed by Giovannini (n.38) esp. 63-8, who singles out the performance of liturgies and the payment of as the most important. However, since are first attested for 434/3 BC, they may not have existed at the time of the Chalkis Decree. For earlier treatments of this problem, see G. Busolt, Griechische Staatskunde (Munich 1920) 1.295-9
24. and E.E. Cohen, The Athenian Nation (Princeton 2000) 72-5.
25. 2 39: "Aliens" in Chalcis and Athenian imperialism', ZPE 21 (1976) 251-9
26. For details, see P.A. Brunt, 'Athenian settlements abroad in the fifth century B.C.', Ancient Society and Institutions: Studies presented to Victor Ehrenberg on his 75th Birthday (Oxford 1966) 71-92, and Graham (n.13), esp. 166-210.
27. J.R. Green and R.K. Sinclair, 'Athens and Eretria', Historia 19 (1970) 515-27.
28. 3 421-30; for Athenian landed property at Eretria, see Green and Sinclair (n.65) 525 n.45; for the property of Nikides and Oionias on Euboia, see O. Aurenche, Les groupes d'Alcibiade, de Léogoras et de Teucros (Paris 1974) 136-40.