Euboea in the Late 340's

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ID3938657
AuthorsG L Cawkwell, George Cawkwell (corresponding author)
Year1978
Volume32
Issue1
Pages42
Publication date1978-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhoenix (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1087947
OpenAlexW2324370226
LanguageEN
Citations received24

IN Classical Quarterly 13 (1963) 210 ff. I DISCUSSED EUBOEAN AFFAIRS in late 340's, and in course of a wider treatment of subject in Classical Quarterly 19 (1969) 245 ff., Euboea in time of Philip II, Professor Brunt attacked my chronology and concluded that it was demonstrably false (259). This has compelled reconsideration of whole subject and forced me to reconsider and present my own view in a wider context. Modern historians have been notably reticent about Euboean League,' but perhaps not surprisingly. An inscription found at Eretria (IG 12.9.207), dated surely enough to later years of Demetrius Besieger, i.e., ca 290 B.c., showed clearly that League existed at that date, under patronage of Demetrius, issuing instructions to magistrates of four main Euboean cities; it appeals to the laws passed for Euboeans (line 69 and cf. 20) and to the decisions of Euboeans (73). But it remains very uncertain whether League existed during wars of Successors. In course of last decade of fourth century, Chalcis and Eretria were members of Boeotian League,2 and reconstituted Euboean League of inscription just referred to was in at least one respect, viz. inclusion of Carystus, different from what Aeschines' remarks on formation of League (3.85 ff.) would lead one to expect. So whenever League was founded, it had its ups and downs and one has to be very careful in what one asserts of period after Chaeronea. One point, however, seems clear enough. The Macedonian domination of Greece did not necessarily lead to suppression of leagues. The most notable instance of a league's survival is, of course, Boeotian. Despite harsh treatment of Thebes in 338, there were Boeotarchs, and Theban Boeotarchs at that, in 335.3 The Achaean and Arcadian leagues also survived (Hyper. In Dem col. 18), of which one had fought for Greeks at Chaeronea and other had not (Paus. 7.6.5 and 15.6, etc.)

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