Abstract

It is notorious that Xenophon omitted all notice of the foundation of the Second Athenian Confederacy, and alluded to Athens' alliances in the 370s so sparingly that if the Hellenica was the only evidence for the period it would hardly be possible to infer the existence of the Confederacy. All that could be said would be that the raid of Sphodrias so embittered the Athenians that they joined with the Thebans in resisting Sparta, rinding in the course of the war the allies who mysteriously appeared in the account of the Peace of 372/1 and who probably included the Corcyraeans. By contrast, Diodorus was explicit, and the best modern account of the foundation, that of Accame, is rightly attentive./