Electrum. Journal of Ancient History

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LOCAL AND IMPERIAL DATES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD

Tom Boiy

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2011 > 18 > 9-22

Dating and time-reckoning has always meant a lot more than simply keeping track of time. It is of course true that from very early times onwards all people, either pastoralists or agriculturalist, had to take the seasons - which means the solar cycle - into account for the simple reason of bare survival. Since a year is far too long for many practical arrangements the omnipresence of the moon provided...

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DEMETRIUS III IN JUDEA

Edward Dabrowa

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2011 > 18 > 175-181

Absence of sources is why we know little about the last kings of the Seleucid dynasty and their reigns. One exception is Demetrius III (97/96-88/87 BC), a son of Antiochus VIII Grypus. What knowledge we have of him we owe to his role in the history of Judea at the end of Alexander Jannaeus' reign (103-86 BC). Josephus' historical works suggest that the king of Syria became involved in a conflict which...

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ACHAEUS, THE PTOLEMIES AND THE FOURTH SYRIAN WAR

Tomasz Grabowski

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2011 > 18 > 115-124

The second half of the 3rd century saw the Seleucid monarchy weaken considerably. The reign of Seleucus II brought difficult battles against Ptolemy III Euergetes (the Third Syrian War) and attempts to overcome massive internal problems. During the war against Egypt, he ultimately managed to recapture northern Syria but Ptolemy III held on to the port of Seleucia Pieria, which was key for the Seleucids,...

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How Many Companions did Philip II have?

Jacek Rzepka

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2012 > 19 > 131–135

This paper deals with a famous passage by Theopompus concerning the hetairoi of Philip II. Athenaeus, one of the three authors who transmitted this fragment to us, states that Philip had 800 hetairoi in 339, which seems to be too low a number for the last years of the reign. In search of a solution which would match Athenaeus’ quotation from Theopompus with other data about Macedonian cavalry under...

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Remarks on Aristotle’s Thettalon politeia

Sławomir Sprawski

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2012 > 19 > 137–147

This article attempts to make a critical assessment of the preserved fragments of Thettalon politeia as a source on the history of early Thessaly. The traces of the existence of this text come from the second half of the 2nd century CE at the earliest, but even then it was seen as one of the Politeiai recorded by Aristotle. As a result of this attribution, information from this text is treated as...

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Notes on a Stratagem of Iphicrates in Polyaenus and Leo Tactica

Everett L. Wheeler

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2012 > 19 > 157–163

Proper understanding of Iphicrates’ stratagem at Polyaenus 3.9.38, marred by a lacuna, can be derived from Leo Tact. 20.196, where anchoring a fleet off a harborless coastline is described. Emending Polyaenus’ text from the reading of a later MS also clarifies the anecdote’s meaning. Leo knew the full text of Polyaenus, since Polyaenus 3.9.38 does not occur in the abbreviated Excepta Polyaeni, which...

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La testa mozza di Crasso (Plut., Crass. 32–33). A proposito di un libro recente sulla battaglia di Carre

Federicomaria Muccioli

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2012 > 19 > 167–178

A differenza di altre epoche storiche, quella antica è particolarmente selettiva dal punto di vista storiografico. La storia (o, meglio, le storie) dei Greci e l’imperium Romanum, con la sua cultura bilingue, operarono di norma un processo di selezione e talora manipolazione delle fonti, anche quando furono soccombenti in campo militare. Eccezioni marginali sono i casi in cui la storiografia e, in...

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Internal Politics in Syracuse, 330–317 BC

Ryszard Tokarczuk

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2012 > 19 > 149–156

There is a certain difficulty in attempts to describe the period in Syracuse between the death of Timoleon and the coming to power of Agathocles. It was a time of great turmoil and political instability – Syracuse would reappear after 317 BC as a tyranny. This article is a review of the events and causes that shaped the final outcome. The main points of interests are: an attempt to describe a type...

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The Ptolemies versus the Achaean and Aetolian Leagues in the 250s–220s BC

Tomasz Grabowski

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2012 > 19 > 83-97

In the 250s and 240s continental Greece found itself in a particularly complicated situation. The growth of the Aetolian and Achaean Leagues, as well as Sparta’s awoken ambitions, presented the Ptolemies with favorable conditions to actively pursue efforts to weaken the Macedonian influence there. Initially, the partner of the Ptolemies became the Achaean League. In this way, the Ptolemaic fleet gained...

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Ctesias and the Importance of His Writings Revisited

Eran Almagor

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2012 > 19 > 9-40

Following the recent attempts to rehabilitate the reputation of Ctesias and the information given in his works, this paper proposes to understand certain of the seemingly fanciful details that were associated with the physician and his writings. It tries to shed some light on several uncertainties connected with Ctesias (i.e., his sojourn in Persia) and the Persica (i.e., date, original style and...

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The Alleged Failure of Athens in the Fourth Century

Peter J. Rhodes

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2012 > 19 > 111-129

This preliminary study of the so-called ‘Pistiros Inscription’ challenges the dominant interpretation of the document that has crystallized in the years since its preliminary publication, namely, that the inscription somehow guarantees the rights of traders operating within Pistiros. A reexamination of the rhetorical structure of the inscription and a reconstruction of the inscription’s relationship...

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The Importance of the Hoplite Army in Aeneas Tacticus’ Polis

Bogdan Burliga

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2012 > 19 > 61-81

The identification of Aeneas Tacticus has always been a matter of dispute. Most often he is supposed to have been a mercenary officer, probably from Stymphalus, to whom Xenophon makes reference in Hellenica, 7.3.1. Accordingly, one may find the views that in Aeneas’ treatise a mercenary perspective is adopted, a claim also supported by the observation that the author records the phenomenon of the...

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Thessaly and Macedon at Delphi

Emma M. Aston

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2012 > 19 > 41-60

The Daochos Monument at Delphi has received some scholarly attention from an art-historical and archaeological perspective; this article, however, examines it rather as a reflection of contemporary Thessalian history and discourse, an aspect which has been almost entirely neglected. Through its visual imagery and its inscriptions, the monument adopts and adapts long-standing Thessalian themes of governance...

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Documentary Contexts for the ‘Pistiros Inscription’

Denver Graininger

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2012 > 19 > 99-110

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The Tradition of the Ionian Colonisation of Asia Minor: Remarks on the Sources

Jakub Kuciak

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2013 > 20 > 9–22

This article discusses the tradition of the Ionian colonisation preserved in ancient literary sources. The author focuses on the time and circumstances in which the view that the Athenians were responsible for the Ionian colonisation emerged. He also examines whether there is any support in the sources for the opinion expressed by some historians that such a belief was already strong in the Archaic...

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Seleukid Settlements: Between Ethnic Identity and Mobility

Omar Coloru

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2013 > 20 > 37–56

The present paper deals with the population of the Seleukid settlements in order to address issues about the settlers’ mobility and ethnic identity. By surveying the available evidence, this study aims in particular to understand the role played by non-Greek populations in the Seleukid Empire, trying to go beyond the thesis of an apartheid-like regime in which those ethnic groups would be socially...

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Corinth after 44 BC: Ethnical and Cultural Changes

Marcin N. Pawlak

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2013 > 20 > 143–162

A few months before his death, Caesar decided to establish a Roman colony on the spot where Corinth, destroyed in 146 BC, used to lie. The population of Roman Corinth was ethnically and socially diverse from the very beginning. This, however, does not change the fact that the city was a Roman colony, whose offi cial name was Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis. With time, natural demographic processes...

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Ptolemaic Foundations in Asia Minor and the Aegean as the Lagids’ Political Tool

Tomasz Grabowski

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2013 > 20 > 57–76

The Ptolemaic colonisation in Asia Minor and the Aegean region was a signifi cant tool which served the politics of the dynasty that actively participated in the fi ght for hegemony over the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea basin. In order to specify the role which the settlements founded by the Lagids played in their politics, it is of considerable importance to establish as precise dating of...

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Greeks and non-Greeks in the City of Emporion and the Construction of Their Different Identities

Adolfo J. Dominguez

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2013 > 20 > 23–36

The Greek city of Emporion is one of the few Greek emporia which ultimately became a polis. Consequently, the city had to adapt the previously held structures of an emporion to cope with the new circumstances which being a polis required; thus its urban space, territory, population, laws, government had to be modifi ed in the conversion from one situation to another. Furthermore, this change had to...

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Coloniam deducere. Colonisation as an Instrument of the Roman Policy of Domination in Italy in the 3rd and 2nd Centuries BC, as Illustrated by Settlements in the Ager Gallicus and Picenum

Maciej Piegdoń

Electrum. Journal of Ancient History > 2013 > 20 > 117–141

This article is an attempt to present the role of colonisation in the Roman policy of expansion towards its Italian neighbours in the 3rd–2nd BCE and showing the effects of this phenomenon, as illustrated by settlements in the Ager Gallicus and Picenum. Information on the founded colonies in sources, appearing somewhat on the margins of accounts of military activities and diplomatic missions in Italy...

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Electrum. Journal of Ancient History

LOCAL AND IMPERIAL DATES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD

DEMETRIUS III IN JUDEA

ACHAEUS, THE PTOLEMIES AND THE FOURTH SYRIAN WAR

How Many Companions did Philip II have?

Remarks on Aristotle’s Thettalon politeia

Notes on a Stratagem of Iphicrates in Polyaenus and Leo Tactica

La testa mozza di Crasso (Plut., Crass. 32–33). A proposito di un libro recente sulla battaglia di Carre

Internal Politics in Syracuse, 330–317 BC

The Ptolemies versus the Achaean and Aetolian Leagues in the 250s–220s BC

Ctesias and the Importance of His Writings Revisited

The Alleged Failure of Athens in the Fourth Century

The Importance of the Hoplite Army in Aeneas Tacticus’ Polis

Thessaly and Macedon at Delphi

Documentary Contexts for the ‘Pistiros Inscription’

The Tradition of the Ionian Colonisation of Asia Minor: Remarks on the Sources

Seleukid Settlements: Between Ethnic Identity and Mobility

Corinth after 44 BC: Ethnical and Cultural Changes

Ptolemaic Foundations in Asia Minor and the Aegean as the Lagids’ Political Tool

Greeks and non-Greeks in the City of Emporion and the Construction of Their Different Identities

Coloniam deducere. Colonisation as an Instrument of the Roman Policy of Domination in Italy in the 3rd and 2nd Centuries BC, as Illustrated by Settlements in the Ager Gallicus and Picenum

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