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Athens and Hestiaea; Notes on two attic Inscriptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

M. Cary
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I. Among the Attic inscriptions of the fifth century which require further study are two fragments with στοιχηδόν lettering of date 450–425 B.C. These were printed separately in the original Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum, but were brought together in the second edition and partly closed up with restorations so as to form the nucleus of a running text. The fuller restoration of the more legible parts given below is highly problematical, for the left edge of the two stones has been broken off completely, so that the number of missing letters at the beginning of each line cannot be ascertained. Fortunately the key words of the text have survived in the extant portions, and these at least give the clue to its general sense, though the details may remain uncertain.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , 1925 , pp. 243 - 250
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1925

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References

1 I.G. i. 25, and Supplement, p 11.

2 Thucydides, iii. 19. The paid by the Athenians under the Peisistratids is here left out of account by Thucydides, and rightly so.

3 I here assume that the ‘Callias decree,’ (I.G. i. 32) belongs to 435 b.c. (see Stevenson, G. H., J.H.S. 1924, p. 1Google Scholarsqq.). If it belongs to 420–418 B.C., 427 B.C. may be taken as an absolute terminus post quem for our text.

4 Abhandlungen der Berliner Akademie, 1873.

5 Ch. 6.

6 I.G. i. 29, ll. 6–8. (See the second part of this article.)

7 I.G. i. 37, ll. 40–42.

8 24, § 9.

9 I.G. v. 1. The editor, W. Kolbe, shows that the date of this text falls between 428–1 B.C. It may be suggested that the date is exactly 428 B.C., for the contributors to the Spartan war-chest include the Melians and a party of Chians, who would hardly have opened their purses except in the year of the revolt of Mitylene.

10 II. 32.

11 I.G. i. 28–9 and Suppl.; Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum, No. 4.

12 Göttinger Nachrichten, philologischhistorische Klasse, 1921, pp. 62–68.

13 I.G. i. Suppl. p. 22, No. 96.

14 Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, , Philologische Untersuchungen, i. p. 35 n.Google Scholar

15 Thuc. i. 114; Diod. xii. 7 and 22; Plutarch, Pericles, ch. 23 Theopompus, fr. 347, ed. Grenfell and Hunt (the Hestiaeans emigrate to Macedonia).

16 See the lists in Pedroli, , Studi di Storia Antica, vol. i. pp. 118–19.Google Scholar

17 I.G. i. 31.

18 Aristotle, , Politics, 1303Google Scholara, 31. In this case the cleavage lay between the descend ants of the former inhabitants of Sybaris and the Athenian settlers.

19 Diodorus, xii. 22, gives 1000; Theo pompus, loc. cit., says 2000.

20 ch. 45.

21 Ibid. 26, § 3, 53, § 1.

22 Herodotus (viii. 23) uses the terms and as if they were synonymous. But the Ellopian land comprised all northern Euboea (Geyer, , Topographie und Geschichte der Insel Euboea, p. 84Google Scholar). We may infer that the Ellopians were, legally speaking, of the Hestiaeans.