Archaic athens and the topography of the kylon affair

The Annual of the British School at Athens

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 309-320

  Harris Cline, Diane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/S0068245400000617     Document Type: Article

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1. e.g. J. Travlos, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Athens (London, 1971), 1-2.
2. N. Robertson, ‘The city center of Archaic Athens’, Hesp., 67 (1998), 283, 302 10.2307/2668475. Robertson's article appeared and became available to me only after an initial version of the present paper had already been written and submitted to BSA: thus many of the suggestions presented by both Robertson and myself were arrived at independently. The phrase ‘Archaic agora’ favoured by Robertson is used here as well, instead of ‘Old Agora.’ which was employed by previous scholars.
3. Cf. especially Paus. i. 28. 1: Hdt. v. 71: Thuc. i. 126.3-12. Other ancient sources include Plut. Thes. 27. Sol. 12: Heraclides Const. of Ath. 2: A. Knights 445: Paus. i. 40. 1. vii. 25-3: Eusebius lor the 35th Olympiad. E. Lévy, ‘Notes sur la chronologie athénienne an VIe siècle’, Hisloria, 27 (1978), 513-21 attempted to lower the Kylon affair to 597 593 BC. but has been refuted by M. Gagarin, ‘The Thesmothetai and the earliest Athenian tyranny law’. TAPA III (1981), 74 (n. 18), and by P. J. Rhodes, A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia. rev. ed. (Oxford, 1993), 79-84.
4. See R. Thomas, Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 1989), 272-8110.1017/CBO9780511597404 for a discussion of the various written traditions concerning the Kylon affair.
5. ‘The city center of Archaic Athens’., 274.
6. Cf. R. W. Wallace, The Areopagos Council. to 307 BC. Baltimore, 1989, 24 : M. Lang, ‘Kylonian conspiracy’. CP 62 1967, 247.
7. Thomas n. 6: cad., Literacy ami Oralily in Ancient Greece Cambridge, 1992.
8. e.g. J. M. Wickersham, ‘Myth and identity in the Archaic polis.’ in D. C. Pozzi and J. M. Wickersham (eds), Myth and the Polis Ithaca and London, 1991.
9. Parker n. 3. 9.
10. See. for example, Lang n. 8. 243-9: Rhodes n. 5. 80: S. D. Lambert, ‘Herodotus, the Cylonian conspiracy and the prytaneis ton naukraron ’, Historia, 35 (1986), 105 12: I. Morris, ‘The poetics of power: the interpretation of ritual action in Archaic Greece’, in C. Dougherty and L. Kurke (eds), Cultural Poetics of Archaic Greece New York, 1994 36, 44.
11. Cf. Wallace n. 8. 24.
12. Robertson n. 4: previously Dontas n. 3: Shear n. 3: Robertson n. 3.
13. See the photograph and text in Dontas n. 3. 52-3. 1. 30.
14. Shear (n. 3) 226-7: cf. A. L. Boegehold, The Lawcourts at Athens Princeton, 1995, 3. 11-44. 50-96.
15. Robertson: n. 3. 147-76: id. n. 4. 283-302: cf. Shear n. 3-225-48 esp. 245 n. 7: Parker n. 3. 50.
16. Cf. Shear (n. 3), 227 9: Robertson (n. 4), 298-9.
17. Cf. Boegehold (n. 16), 118-19 no. 1. Pausanias then descends to the area of the Olympieion. the llissos river, and the stadium.
18. Robertson (n. 14), 283-4. 287-8. 298-9. fig. 1. This agrees with John McK. Camp in Boegehold (n. 16), 11, ‘The Prytaneion was on the east slope of the Akropolis’.
19. Arist. Ath. Pol. 3-5.
20. Cf. C. Sourvinou-Inwood, ‘What is polis religion?’, in O. Murray (ed.), The Greek City: From Homer to Alexander (Oxford, 1990), 308 S. G. Miller, The Prytaneion: Its Function and Architectural Form (Berkeley, 1978), 4-23.
21. Wallace (n. 8), 38-9, 207-8.
22. Jacoby. FGrH 323a F 24. On the testimoma and archaeological evidence for the courts of Athens, see Boegehold (n. 16).
23. Cf. Wallace (n. 8), 34-5 with discussion.
24. Rhodes (n. 5), 153 6 on Ath. Pol. 8. 4.
25. Arist. Ath. Pol. 15, 4 : Polyacnus i. 21. 2: cf. Robertson n. 4.295) 8: id. (n. 3), 163-8: Shear (n. 3), 245-6 n. 21.
26. Pint. Thes. 36. 2: Kïm. 8. 5-6: Paus. i. 17. 2. 6.
27. E. Vanderpool, ‘The “Agora” of Pausanias I. 17. 1-2’. Hesp., 43 (1974), 308-1010.2307/147664. The finds, located 200 m east of the Roman Market in a Post-Hernlian wall near the Church of St. Demeirios Katephoros. included IG ii2 956-8 and a relief of Theseus and the Minotaur NMA inv. 1664-1664a.
28. Robertson (n. 4), 297: they are not shown on his fig. 1.
29. Lucian. Pivator. 42: Shear (n. 3), 228: cf. also the plan in Robertson n. 3. 158.
30. Robertson n. 4. 295.
31. Domas n. 3. 60.
32. Sources tor the Ahar s of the Dread Goddesses Erinyes. Semnai include Aesch. Eum. 804 ff.: Deinarechos i. 47. 64-87: Thue. i. 126: Soph. Oed. Col. 89-90. 1590-1: Ar. Thesm. 224. 931. 940: Lobon of Argos. About Poets F 16 Cröncrt ap. Diog. Laert. i. 112: Paus. vii. 25-2: Val. Max. v. 3. ext. 3. See also Morris (n. 12), 36-4:Wallance (n. 8), 106-12. 236 n. 93: Gagarin (n.5), 72 n.6: B. Jordan, Servants of the Gods (Göttingen, 1979), 56-9: id., ‘Herodotos 51-7. 2 and the Naukraroi of Athens’, CSCA 3-1970: 153-75: Lévy (n. 5), 513 4: Lang (n. 8), 243-9: J. G. Frazer, Pausanias's Description of Greece. vol. II London, 1898, 365-6.
33. Wycherley (n. 20), no. 349: cf. Jacoby. FGrH 328 F 177. The Etym. Magn. dales to the 12th c. AD), but is based on the 3rd c. BC : historian Philoehoros.
34. Cf. Wycherley (n. 20), no. 341 with text of scholiast no. 342: K. A. Christensen, ‘The Theseion: a slave refuge at Athens’. AJAH 9 (1984 [1990]), 23-32.
35. Wycherley (n. 20), no. 358.
36. Jacoby. FGrH 457 T 1: cf. Wallace (n. 8), 236 n. 93. For the nameless shrines, see A. Henrichs, ‘Anonymity and polarity: unknown gods and nameless altars at the Areopagos’. Illinois Classical Studies. 19 (1994), 35-9. For Epimenides’ purification, see also Arist. Ath. Pol. 1: Plut. Sol 12: cf. Rhodes (n. 5), 83.
37. Jacoby. commentary on FGrH 328 F 177.
38. Cf. Wallace (n. 8), 77-8.
39. Cf. Wycherley., 77.
40. Aesch. Eum. 482-8. 681-4. 704-6: cf. Jacoby. FGrH 323a F 24. See also Wallace (n. 8), 87-93: M. I. Davies, ‘Thoughts on the Oresteia before Aischylos’, BCH 93 (1969), 214-6010.3406/bch.1969.2185 : A. L. Brown, ‘Eumenides in Greek tragedy’. CQ n.s. 34 (1984), 271.
41. See id., ‘The Athenian Agora: excavations of 1970’, Hesp., 40 (1971), 259 60: Robertson (n. 3), 171.
42. See Jacoby. FGrH 323a F 24: Wallace (n. 8), 226-7; K. Clinton, ‘Review article: A new Lex Sacra front Selinus: Kindly Zeuses. Eumenides. Impure and Pure Tritopatorcs. and Elastcroi’, CP 91 (1996), 166.
43. Wallace (n. 8), III adds: ‘There is no evidence for any religious activity by the Areopagos before 462/1’.
44. Parker (n. 3), 130 n. 31: Henrichs (n.39), 45-6: Wallace (n. 8), 106-12.
45. Cf. Parker (n. 3), 130: Wallace (n. 8), 109.
46. Wallace (n. 8), 109.
47. For the tomb of Oedipus, see Paus. i. 28. 6 and Val. Max. v. 3. 3: cf. Hennchs (n. 39), 41. On Lykourgos and his religious initiatives, see S. Humphreys, ‘Lycurgus of Butadae: an Athenian aristocrat,’ in J. W. Eadie and J. Ober (eds), The Graft of the Ancient Historian: Essays in Honor of Chester G. Starr, Lanham MD, 1985), 199-252 : D. Harris, ‘Bronze statues on the Athenian Acropolis: the evidence of a Lycurgan inventory’ AJA 96 (1992), 637-5210.2307/505189.
48. Robertson (n. 3), 164: ‘In the early fifth century a part of this area became the civic Theseion. whether this was a new creation or the enlargement of a preexisting sanctuary: in the Hellenistic period another part became the Gymnasium of Ptolemy.’
49. Cf. Robertson (n. 4), 296 8: Rhodes (n. 5), 77.
50. Cf. Boegehold (n. 16), 44. Perhaps the transfer of the altars from the sacred area in the Archaic agora to the Areopagos was undertaken at the same time as the lithos or oath stone was moved from the Prytaneion to the Royal Stoa.
51. Lang (n. 8), 243-9.
52. Boegehold (n. 16), 44. following E. Vanderpool, ‘The Apostle Paul in Athens’, Archaeology, 3 (1950), 34-7.
53. Lang (n. 8), 245-6.
54. Robertson (n. 4), fig. 1.
55. Shear (n. 3), fig. 1.