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22 Prospectus of the Second Athenian League, 378/7 Ent Navooticedpyorros KatiBios|Kypiooporros eypauivever PECTUS OF THD SECOND ATHENIAN LEAGUE, 378/79 at peace ocewpying the tiory insecurity, [andso that the peace King in accordance be in free andl end} people: lecreed by the the Greeks oro the barb in Burope oF of the "Thebans and the other alli, D4 92, pRosrgcTUS oF THE SECOND artinNtAN LEAGUE, 378/7 Byori copay ss When deiren(cooe irae v8 [r}3dnblévalror, eat npneotes dy AO [olss nai ois] ouupdyors i Beason rin 60 5 by neg] byrne ead of payor xpardndy fs) 82 Paokrn sph ude. 16 BLesrialowa ride Bypapyareds rie odGleduoyplinsras ev or Ati 65 vp nad xarabelral maps rbe dia rv Bde PROSPECTUS OF THE SEOOND ATHENIAY LEAOUE, 378/7 for land inthe cettory ofthe allie, either by purchase or by taking ect o in any other ‘way. IFany one does buy or acquize oF take a8 security in any way whatever, it shall be per mitted to whoever wishes ofthe allies to expose icto the nad of the alles i and give one half to the while the other shall be the fa war ag either by land o by sa, the allies shall go to upport bby land and by sea with all thie a fara posible. 11 anyone proposes or ptsto the ote, whether official or private citizen contrary othin decree be deprived his right, and hi property shal ‘ecome public and a tenth belong to the God ‘eas, and esha be judged by the Athenians for breaking up the aliance, He %8 96 29, PRosrEcTOS oF THE sEoOND AttIEMIAW LEAGUE, 378/7 | 378/77 Bepor 382 the names of the any other wt | inserbed. | 72 The people i envoys to T Underat saofais ia on th fos the gig ofenithr dee Aritatees proposed: ~~~ since fst~——they people and——— of the =--to hose of the Wee th rome ofthe members oder whic thy t om hae ernie | In the same and as he decree: nh same dau, ening and clr | ~The ‘ina wand han, helen Tear he snd exer bore Evetia; Aretha; Carystus, I Paha alin id hand, Bet Bani i the int shen 1-9 Pevinhus; Peparethus;Scisthus; Mavo- Diu, ter name eft ‘Tenedos ft bid Chi) Poresa seed bide Ride) Paros; O—; Athenae Dias Ps Pal}; ep sic ging! wei 7, ane wey sce tal tha exon te fons, ening ie wth nthe id ide, aging al th ht om the font ‘rq The People ofZacyn (nthe had sie, ein es of hain dee ‘The People of Fyrrhas Aber Tasos; ce 08 92, Paoseee OF THE SECOND ATHENIAN LEAUE, $78/7 wes 105 duvauorat Arapaives Kebodir Hpi sae Toolejrat Kepdasts Banda Nip viheedeommenay ses Caran tee marmosets fp areca nals ad herp According 19 DS. xv. 28 (misplaced under the year 577/6)y alter the Hiberation of “Thebes fom Sparta {which in fact ace Athenians sent Astraeus; of arthaea, Cores Blac Amongus; Selymbel,Siphnusy Sic, fom Thrace; Nespole, ssf ey, Diodorus continues ls Sphacriades) on the Piraeus his acquital despite protests fom ile Spartan envoys were pres MIAN LEAGUE, 378/7 op 22, pnoserotus oF THE sEcOND ATHENIAN LEAGUE, 378/7 22, PROSPECTUS OF THE HECOND AT ‘one councilor frm each be xcept the tribe in prytany (cA. Pa 44 | ot the pron: The exci atest "Beit resoved/deeoe! bythe were begining to din- ned not ratify recommendation | pp. xvi ae-a}; nthe second al ofthe ith oning the council had been stendardl for all states, as most of the members Tsted were; but teal, and what eemsclear tous 1emain decre, reappears below ato {oThebes and asthe propeser of te second dese. He is ment ¥. 35 a8 awrite of lay-cour speeches; and he maybe the father ofA emveys by Ding Laer this League vari Delian League Itthreatene with penalties anyone ofthe League. doesnot i that nathing i sid aout A /ngonon, and nothings sad about the working ofthe pedo, hough 48-4 Itprovidestor, and the to which names weresddedon various occasions uri this peace and its renewal are ote refered ts the com- heyembodied terms which were common to al he Greeks the ein And, a, Peat 17). Te deletion presents a inolube prob ans are not likely fo have deleted uch a passage unt 367, iebans won Persian support for terme unfavousable o Athens. H. fs championed a the occasion fr the deletion by Ryder, Aine Bes, 8 nd 99 show Athensstlluppoting the Peace of om 369 Athens had been anally f Sparta XH. va. 89-40. 54), Diodorus may wel be right ta die- eis the model fr Byzamtiom (Tod 191 ~ Harding 34), is here; Thebes, hough imseribed bythe fist hand, 1) we should of members, an further negotiations with it are I 12 tobe deleted abo, Presumably the deletion eficisa sudden 727; aeit from the yea 9378/7 that Athens renounce overseas fexingofanger again the Persians sessions However, A ly withthe Peace of Antalcidas, "545: Athenspromibes noo indulge in varius practices in which thd indulged and would not Spartan League before the raid ofSphodtias in the Delian League, Ie useful to review tha had put Sparta leary in breach of the Peace; ant strikng that by spring 377 the Athens kept her promises pos bers. We think Dizdorus was wrong placing the four ‘Aer by intervening ia Co overnor:sec co collection of tribute) 46: Inthe prescrip ofthe main deere the deme ofthe chairman is given, ram ths Leng Tp, Fi inthe gion, the council mise gets that at fit was pesbaps own ores and no common funds would + fenot a deme whi woul pay or ‘the property tx called epee property: Diodorus renunciation of all the League and were An Phasicse on 14, andl 25, 40) ‘becummited only by i ied stat in his own sate. In theory a meeting of an assembly © reverse decisions tak vious meetings: on ‘entrenchment clauses to protect decisions against reveal, see D-M. Lewis, Dipor ... 8. D. Met, 81-9 = Salvied Paper, 196-99; Rhos with Lewis, 16-1, 524-5, Here charges are to be {wed "by the Athenians andthe alli: though some have envisaged a join court (6 Toth more probably the yanmar an Athenian body would ery the ease separ (Laren, Reps Gnomon 63 4) Lewis ‘offences, on which the aserbly might have the Athenian sate for nded 39 = Sled Paes, yf MIAN LEAGUE, $78/7 'o come oma fond often alent fee on sare those of Athena, separated ance more from 85 Fegison, Teaser of Ahm, 24 12-7 There have been varion suggestion eto the purpose ofthe arther embassy rebes: perhaps io persuade the Thebans to accept membership of te Lea 3 than ‘Boeotans’(Accare, 6; Cawhwell gy, g8-2)-"Persuale whatever good thing they an istandard language, and we n crate vagueness. OF the envoys, Aristotle i he pro Pytthanvrasisan envoy to Byzantium in Tod “Tod 124~ Harding 98, both competed wi leading figure fom 406 (Pt le 96, 9895 3-5 0.2). Aesch fist group of names was ineribed by ind asthe decree, and therefore conti sates which were it comprises the states mentioned in DS, xv, 28 and Methy 0093, second hand added a group of Euboran cites and meaty joined by the end of s/7 (oe Tod 124 ~ Haring ci invcribed ini. Ba bes yt, shoul expect re was a well awn spi 4.170, St. 449.11), Only Steph. Byz steer toa city ofthat ram Accame, 72-3, i among thse who of Chalice, is There exit also ing Arethusa gpa av 43. Other For Hestias's delay in fo 22, peosrterus of THE secon atieatAN LEAGUE, 378/7 | ies are mentioned in 48, snd in hand foutfor doubt alt Ue ity af this group see bras in 377(D.S. x. 9o.\,menvoning Peparethus el, hough ‘ben adel in the course Igy Jason ie epe- sees Athens x63 rival to Athens to speak for ‘of Athens (Dem) x2 Some ofthe names on the lf-hand side certainly belongto 375 for Ableracl. DS. v.96. for Acamanin and 1g, 42-9) Aer this st ner than the end of ther additions, parently regarding the wionhe forcethe evidence (clon ast better League was not closed and the application ofthe "or some reason the practice of adding names ined as one ‘member but DS. x. 0. ia rane Aesch 1. ina yo mento Asa resul oftheir campaigns during the eary years ofthe League Charis ad ‘on Asraeus,L 19), ‘Timotheus were both honoured with statues inthe Agora ( Ini, oi-2 we should expect ‘the Chalidians frm Thrace’ tobe the sate centred father Conon:ef on 8 For Cabrse ee Aech.m. ‘on Olyatbus. Tha war defeatedand presumably ain g19(K HS: [Nep. xu, Gabi, DS. 235, 26,D.S. x95, stating that Olynthuswas made arubordinateally of Sparta but (AP Burnet & C.N, Bones what became ofthe federation}; but itis lar fem the coi ed “the Chale (Robinson & Clement, Evaro at Oaths Acie Hist and Noi chronoogy but does sian’ ater 79), Nees

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