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Athens and the Satraps' Revolt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Marcus N. Tod ,
R. P. Austin  and
M. N. T.
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[The premature death of Reginald P. Austin, which took place on April 12, 1943, brought to a wide circle the loss of a singularly loyal and lovable friend, and impoverished all students of Greek archaeology and history, to the study and teaching of which he had made, and would have continued to make, contributions of marked value. His admirably clear and detailed reports on his excavations at Haliartus in 1926 and 1931 (BSA xxvii, 81 ff., xxviii, 128 ff., xxxii, 180 ff.) and his article on the epigraphical contents of an unpublished diary of Sir William Gell (BSA xxvii, 69 ff.) showed those same qualities of thoroughness and accuracy which marked his valuable work on The Stoichedon Style in Greek Inscription.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 64 , November 1944 , pp. 98 - 100
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1944

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NOTES

page 100 note 1 The references to Grote's History of Greece in the fore going article are to the ten-volume edition of 1888.

page 100 note 2 Now housed in the Ashmolean Museum.

page 100 note 3 For the Satraps' Revolt in general, see Grote, viii, 344 ff., Judeich, W., Kleinasiatische Studien, 190 ff.Google Scholar, 330 ff., Meye, E.Geschichte des Altertums, v, 485 ff.Google Scholar, Beloch, K. J., Griechische Geschichte2 iii, 1, 213 ff.Google Scholar, 2, 254 ff., Tarn, W. W., CAH vi, 20 f.Google Scholar

page 100 note 4 Two pieces of evidence which Austin has not discussed in this study are (1) the formula used in 11. 15–18 of the decree for Strato, , and (2) the well-known but puzzling inscription IG iv, 556. On the basis of the former, A. C. Johnson maintains that the decree honouring Strato belongs to the years 378–77 B.C. (Cl. Phil. ix, 423Google Scholar). The latter, variously restored and interpreted by modern scholars, embodies the reply, found at Argos, though couched in the Attic dialect, of ‘the Greeks,’ recently united in a κοινὴ εἰρήνη to an envoy sent to them by ‘the satraps’; this is to the effect that the King is not, so far as the Greeks know, at war with them, and that, if he keeps the peace and does not attempt to produce discord among them, they will maintain peaceful relations with him, but that, if he makes war on any of the confederate Greeks or seeks to break up the peace, all the Greeks will oppose a common resistance. The κοινὴ εἰρήνη in question has been identified by Boeckh with the King's Peace of 386, by Momigliano (Riv. Fil. lxii, 494 ff.Google Scholar) with the κοινὴ εἰρήνη of 371–0, by Meyer, E. (Gesch. Alt. v, § 961)Google Scholar with that of 366–5, and by Beloch, (Gr. Gesch.2 iii, 1, 535 note 1Google Scholar) with that of 344, while Koehler assigned the inscription to the years 338–34; the majority of scholars, however, follow Wilhelm in regarding it as the ‘common peace,’ in which Sparta alone did not participate, concluded in 362–1, soon after the battle of Mantinea. This Argive inscription will bear the number 145 in the forthcoming second volume of my Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions.