‘Athens aids Eretria’: A state's jurisdiction over its citizens' actions

The Classical Quarterly

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 295-297

  Toogood, N ^a  

^a ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85008521404     PISSN: 00098388     EISSN: 14716844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cq/47.1.295     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. In The Concept of Neutrality in Classical Grehce (California, 1991): indexed under ‘Neutrality and mercenary recruitment’.
2. e.g. p. 73.
3. Bauslaugh,, passim.
4. Thuc. 1.35.4. It is hard to see, though, what prevented Corcyra herself from attempting to recruit mercenaries within the empire.
5. This incident, and the nature of the relationship between Athens and Persia at this date, are discussed by Bauslaugh,, p. 216ff.
6. E.g. Bengtson, Die Staatsvertrdge des Altertums (Munich, 1962), vol. II, no. 193,11. 18-20. (Henceforth ‘Bengtson’.)
7. Bauslaugh,, p. 148 with refs.
8. Bauslaugh,, p. 187.
9. alliance: Tod 103, Bengtson no. 229-very heavily restored, including all the phrase summachos einai, but certainly a military treaty (. Kara] TO [8]waTo[v] is standard-see e.g. Bengtson no. 223) and certainly dated.
10. See Tod on 11.154. A renewal would have clarified the position of the Euboeans, who had aligned themselves with Thebes at Leuctra.
11. Alliances a little later in the fourth century were often of philia kai swnmachia (e.g. Tod 11.158). This is likely to be merely a change in linguistic fashion, since a summachia, being a strong military alliance, might be assumed to comprehend the general undefined expectations of philia. The specification of philia on its own is significant; its omission in a summachia need not be. The decree of Aristoteles only specifically mentions becoming a summachos (11. 18-19).
12. W. K. Pritchett, Ancient Greek Military Practices I (Berkeley, 1971), p. 21: ‘And this was how mercenaries of the Greek cities must usually have lived in the fourth century, hand to mouth’.
13. The punishment envisaged is similar to the penalties specified for those who try to alter the decree of Aristoteles, as Tod notes, except that it is even stricter in calling for death rather than atimia: the Athenians clearly wish to demonstrate how seriously they take Eretria's complaint.