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Question 1

What is particularly unique about 5th cent Athenian epigraphy?

Answer 1

many decrees are evidenced in their full form

Question 2

What was the most simple sort of inscrip in 5th cent Greece? Evidence?

Answer 2

list of names
many of this sort found across g world including outside athens

Question 3

What does the Parian marble chronicle indicate about contemporary understanding of the 5th cent events?

Answer 3

Pelo War was perhaps not seen as significant or great as Thuc may suggest
(poss down to constant existence of warfare in anc world?)

Question 4

What is rarely the case in comparing Athenian history and epigraphic evidence?

Answer 4

there are corresponding pieces of evidence

Question 5

What is main problem of 5th cent Athenian inscriptions?

Answer 5

dating and chronology

Question 6

In what ways do the casualty list inscrips and Thuc align?

Answer 6

Thuc refers to special place of display (demasion sema) which is proved by the findspots of these inscrips

Question 7

What was the dual purpose of Battle of Marathon casualty list?

Answer 7

record the dead but also the great victory

Question 8

Where was B of Marathon casualty list inscrip found? How had this happened?

Answer 8

Arcadia
Taken and moves by a HAdrianic wealth individual

Question 9

How was the B of Marathon casualty list organised?

Answer 9

10 stele overall, one for each deme with their own dead recorded on them

Question 10

Where in Athens were stele displayed?

Answer 10

alongside road out of Dipylon gate

Question 11

What details of the indivs in casualty list stele are given?

Answer 11

deme and name

Question 12

What does the Erechtheis casualty list c460/59 stele aling with in Thuc?

Answer 12

descrip of athenian presence and activity in Egypt and Cyprus
1.104-5

Question 13

When does the fixed dating archon formula become widespread and thus allow for chronology as to Ath stelai? Exceptions?

Answer 13

420s
Tribute lists

Question 14

What stele do we have that attests to an important event in run up to Sicily?

Answer 14

Egesta alliance with Athens to c418/7

Question 15

What is known as the lapis primus and lapis secundus? Date?

Answer 15

first lot of Ath tribute records inscribed on two large stones for the years 454/3-431

Question 16

In what state does the lapis primus and secundus survive?

Answer 16

very fragmentary

Question 17

What changed for the Ath tribute quota list stelai in Pelo War?

Answer 17

Were arranged into separate stelai rather than put on small number of v large stelai

Question 18

What do the first tribute quota lists record?

Answer 18

-first fruits of allies was to be paid to Athens
-who paid and, when stone is preserved well enough, what they paid
-one mina of every talent (1/60th) was dedicated to Athena

Question 19

How were tributes calculated in principles? What is general pattern in states who appeared to be more able?

Answer 19

based on ability to pay, possibly with consideration of population
they had access to commercial and external mineral revenues

Question 20

What is the range in tributes paid by states?

Answer 20

500 drachmas - 30 talents

Question 21

How many allies are recorded in first tribute lists? How many at peak?

Answer 21

130
c200

Question 22

When was the Reassessment of Tribute decree made that we have? How many states does it appear to have recorded? What does it outline?

Answer 22

425/4
c400
Increases in tribute for indiv states

Question 23

How often was the tribute reassessed? How do we know this?

Answer 23

4 years, at time of Panathenaia
Detail included by Old Oligarch

Question 24

What is the range of total tribute collected by Athens given by Thuc? What does the inscrip evidence suggest? Explanations?

Answer 24

460-600
never goes beyond 400
-thuc is wrong
-records incomplete
-payments still due at point of inscription
-overestimation of funds being able to be derived from allies

Question 25

What changes in tribute for allies after Sic expedition?

Answer 25

It became impossible to efficiently collect so generally 5% harbour tax was enforced

Question 26

What literary evidence is there for Ath standards and coinage decree?

Answer 26

Aristophanes Birds
‘[decree-seller]: The people of Cloudcuckooland are to use these measures and weights and decrees just like the Olophyxians.’ 1035-41

Question 27

In what form does the reconstructed Ath Standards Coinage Decree exist now?

Answer 27

Fragments from across the greek world
Many are now lost and remain in academia only in paper casts

Question 28

What are the 2 major variations between the fragments of Ath Standards and Coinage decree?

Answer 28

Smyrna decree has an extra three lines
Aphytis decree has a stronger assertion of punishments to using other coinage

Question 29

Where were the Standards decree stelai displayed?

Answer 29

displayed in the market of each ally

Question 30

What could be behind the minor variations in regions’ versions of Standards decree?

Answer 30

the transportation - likely read out to the locals by Ath heralds and then inscribed rather than the copies of the stone stelai being shipped to allies

Question 31

When does Osborne and Rhodes date standards decree to? What is lower bound for this and its evidence?

Answer 31

420s
415 - linked with shift in tribute collection 413 and Aristophanes fragment

Question 32

When and What was the decree of regulations for Miletos by Athens?

Answer 32

mid 5th century (typical date is 450/49 but this is not without disagreement)
Regulations that claimed to be helping recovery of Miletos after rebellion from Athens but essentially attests to great Athenian political intervention e.g. the appointment of Athenians in gvt offices

Question 33

What kinds of decrees are used as evidence for imperialsm?
What kind of language is included in such?

Answer 33

proxeny decrees
formulaic phrase included of ‘cities over which Athenian have control’
sentiment of overarching power rather than language of egalitarianism (‘‘allies’’)

Question 34

In describing Hdt’s History, what greek term could be used? Why?

Answer 34

Homerikotatos (homer-like)
Storytelling manner which dealt with myths and legends alongside hist enquiries

Question 35

What is the term used for the external bits of evidence that confirm details given by Thuc?

Answer 35

tekmerion
Word derives from Aristotle’s Rhetoric in which it means ‘unquestionable proof’

Question 36

What are 2 details given by Thuc now believed to be mistaken due to other contrary evidence?

Answer 36

Ath generals at Corcyra are not correct according to inscribed Ath account of the resources for the battle
Aristotle, and other later hists, disagree w initial plans laid out for council of 400

Question 37

What evidence is there for Aristotle having read Thuc?

Answer 37

their views on the causes as to the fall of oligarchy are very similar

Question 38

What does Plato’s Menexenus parody?

Answer 38

Funeral Oration, w Socrates claiming such a speech is easy having learnt how to do it from Aspasia (so called teacher of Pericles)

Question 39

What motives ran through Athens’ proxeny decrees?

Answer 39

political
commercial
strategic - allying with enemy’s allies

Question 40

How did proxeny decrees increase trade?

Answer 40

both cities could avoid transaction fees
integration of markets

Question 41

What was a proxenos? Their expected responsibilities?

Answer 41

‘public friend’ - indiv from a foreign place honoured by a polis and given social benefits or even material ones.
Facilitate relations between the two states and act on behalf of the providing state