The Date of the Union of Corinth and Argos

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ID9665491
AuthorsChristopher Tuplin (University of Liverpool, corresponding author)
Year1982
Volume32
Issue1
Pages75-83
Publication date1982-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0009838800022813
OpenAlexW2276347389
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited3

Granted the acceptability of the argument in section B the only clear contradiction in the evidence about the union of Corinth and Argos is that between Xenophon and Diodorus. What I have said about the latter may seem arbitrary and wilful. But I suggest that it is no less arbitrary and wilful to regard Xenophon's account of the matter as utterly wrong or, worse still, almost utterly wrong but with tinges of truth, and that we are quite entitled to give Xenophon, not Diodorus, the benefit of the doubt. I should also have thought that, a priori , unification is quite as likely to have occurred against the background of the violent political disturbances of c . March 392 as against that of the destruction of the Spartan mora and Iphicrates' successes elsewhere in 390. 33

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