Phormion and Peisistratos

M ARY WHITE HAS DEVOTED THE MAJOR PART Of her scholarly life to Phoenix, which, as first editor, she brought to the front rank among classical journals, and to the tyrannies of archaic Hellas, a complex subject to which her contribution has been equally distinguished. I offer her a modest note concerning Peisistratos in the hope that, if it does not convince her, it will at least provoke her interest. In 1939 B. D. Meritt published' a small fragment of inscribed marble preserving the remains of six names cut in a column. He identified this remnant as part of the list of archons set up on a marble stele in Athens about 425 B.C. This identification was brilliantly confirmed by D. W. Bradeen when, in 1960, he recognised three more splinters of the same monument lying on the epigraphic shelves in the Stoa of Attalos.2 It is with one of these splinters, Bradeen's fragment b, that I am here concerned

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