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The foundation of Thasos*

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Thasos must be one of the best-known, archaeologically, of all Greek colonies, so it is something of a paradox that the material evidence for its foundation and earliest days is far from satisfactory. We have no early graves, and, until 1960, there was no evidence from any very early settlement either. True, in more than one sanctuary it is assumed that the finds go back (in general terms) to the beginning of the life of the Parian colony, but none of this material is demonstrably earlier than c. 650, a time which is very generally thought to be about a generation later than the foundation of the colony. So even quite recently it was possible to write ‘It seems likely that it was founded from Paros by about 680 B.C. … The earliest pottery which can be dated is Corinthian and Rhodian, none of it much earlier than the mid seventh century.’

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References

1 Ghali-Kahil, L., Études Thasiennes VII, La Céramique Grecque (Paris, 1960) 11.Google Scholar By contrast we have considerable knowledge of later cemeteries; see BCH lxxviii (1954) 225–51.

2 For the sanctuaries and dates see Bernard, P., BCH lxxxviii (1964) 77CrossRefGoogle Scholar; cf. Pouilloux, J., Études Thasiennes III, Recherches sur l'Histoire et les cultes de Thasos (Paris, 1954) 14f.Google Scholar; Id. ‘Archiloque et Thasos: histoire et poésie’, Fond. Hardt x (1963) 14; Boardman, J., The Greeks Overseas 2 (London, 1973) 225.Google Scholar

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4 Boardman, ibid.

5 Bernard, P., ‘Céramiques de la première moitié du VIIe siècle à Thasos’, BCH lxxxviii (1964) 77146CrossRefGoogle Scholar; hereinafter I refer to this paper by the author's name alone.

6 Pouilloux, Et. Thas. III, 22 ff., includes abundant references to the earlier literature (cf. also his later treatment, Fond. Hardt x. 3 ff.). The ancient evidence was usefully collected by Jacobs, E., Thasiaca (Berlin, 1893) 612Google Scholar, and by Fredrich, C., IG xii. 8 pp. 74 ff.Google ScholarJacoby, F., ‘The date of Archilochus’, CQ xxxv (1941) 97109CrossRefGoogle Scholar, is the most important treatment of the chronology.

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11 ‘Sanctuaires d'Hercule-Melqart’, Syria xliv (1967) 73–109. 307–36.

12 See n. 5 above; I use Bernard's terminology.

13 In addition to the general plan of Thasos and the excavations, reproduced from Guide de Thasos (Paris, 1968) fig. 4, see the plan in BCH lxxxv (1961) fig. 1, opp. p. 918.

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16 As Bernard, 85.

17 Bernard, 83–6; BCH lxxxvi (1962) 938.

18 Bernard, 86, and figs. 3 and 4 (walls e andf).

19 BCH lxxxv (1961) 935.

20 Bernard, 87 and fig. 2.

21 Bernard, 87.

22 Bernard, 85: ‘deux couches très minces d'une terre noirâtre mêlée de charbons, séparées par une couche de terre sablonneuse.’

23 Bernard, 87.

25 Bernard, fig. 2 and 81 f.

26 Bernard, fig. 2.

27 P. 87.

28 Bernard, 80 f. and fig. 1.

29 Ibid, and fig. 2.

30 Bernard, 82 and fig. 6.

31 Bernard, 82 f.

32 These important early houses at Old Smyrna have not yet been properly published. Brief descriptions, photographs, and reconstructions drawn by R. Nicholls, are to be found in Akurgal, E., Die Kunst Anatoliens (Berlin, 1961) 9 ff., 301.Google Scholar Cf. also the briefer accounts in AJA lxvi (1962) 369 ff., and Drerup, H., Griech. Baukunst in geometrischer Zeit (Arch. Homerica II ch. O; Göttingen, 1969) 44–7.Google Scholar

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34 Nicholls, p. 700.

35 Compare Salviat's, description, ‘ces huttes assez primitives’; Actes du VIIIe Congrès Internat. d'Archéologie Classique, Paris, 1963 (1965) 302.Google Scholar

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37 Pp. 126–31.

38 See p. 134.

39 JHS xxxii (1962) 130.

41 E.g. nos. 163, 165 (p. 128).

42 Bernard, 126. See, for example, the excellent discussion of the very numerous examples from the great cemetery at Vergina; Andronikos, M., Vergina I (Athens, 1969) 194 ff.Google Scholar

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44 Bernard, 130; Olynthus V pls. 23,24; for the chronology, pp. 15 fr., 47–63, and XIII 3 ff. Hammond assumes that Iron Age Olynthus begins c. 650; op. cit. 358 f. He uses the literary evidence about the expulsion of the Bottiaeans from Macedonia (Thuc. II. 99. 3, 100. 2; cf. Hdt. VIII 139). While that may give us a (very approximate) date for the arrival of the Bottiaeans in the area, it is clear that the excavators did not envisage that arrival as the beginning of Iron Age settlement at Olynthus, which they put long before; see Olynthus XIII, 2. On the evidence that they found, the Bottiaean arrival offers no archaeological date for material at Olynthus.

45 As Bernard, 126.

46 Cf. Salviat, Actes du VIIIe Congrès, etc. 302: ‘Il n'est pas exclu que certains de ces vases aient été effectivement importés de Macédoine.’

47 Bernard, 124; Olynthus V pl. 22, pp. 23–4.

48 Bernard, 124; Olynthus V p. 50.

49 Bernard, 109–15.

50 Bernard provides a good discussion and bibliography, ibid.

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53 Et. Thas. VII. 45 f.

54 Bernard, 116–23.

55 Troy IV fig. 302, 2a-2d (p. 279); fig. 310, 21, 22–4 (p. 296).

56 Cf. Troy IV 273, 294.

57 As suggested already by Ghali-Kahil, L., Et. Thas. VII 33Google Scholar; also Bernard, 116.

58 Bernard, 88–105. At least one fragment of this ware was found earlier on Thasos; see Et.Thas. VII plate xxiii, 50 (cf. Bernard, 98 f.).

59 Troy IV 253–5.

60 Bernard, 88–90.

61 Bernard, 90.

63 See Bernard, 106. On the dating of the G 2–3 Ware from Troy, see below p. 68.

64 Bernard, 105–9. A small number of sherds of this Lemnian pottery were found before the excavations of 1960 and 1961; see Et. Thas. VII, 41 f., 1–3 (pl. xiv 1–3); cf. Bernard, 107–9; and some more were found in excavations in the Champ Dimitriadis in 1962; see BCH lxxxvii (1963) 846.

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67 Pp. 88–105.

68 BSA xxxii (1931–2) 41–67; see her plate 23 and the comments on p. 254 of Troy IV.

69 Op. cit. 56.

70 Op. cit. 45.

71 Op. cit. 47.

72 Cf. the ‘percolation’ of sherds mentioned on p. 45.

73 Troy IV 254; Bernard, 93.

74 See Bernard, 88.

75 Ibid. For brief general accounts of these excavations, see ASA x–xii (1927–9) 712 f.; xii–xiv (1930–1) 499 f.; n.s. i–ii (1939–40) 223 f.; cf. Arch. Eph. 1937, 629–54.

76 On the stratigraphy see Troy III 158; IV 280. The arguments on the date of the ware are well set out at IV 254 (cf. 249 f.), though the authors' ignorance of the Lemnian material is remarkable (cf. Bernard, 89, who, perhaps charitably, assumed that they were consciously excluding it from discussion).

77 Professor R. M. Cook, who kindly discussed this. pottery with me, thought it should be of the seventh century by style.

78 On the date of the beginning of Troy VIII, see above p. 67.

79 Hesp. xxi (1952) 20, 33–7, especially 34 f.; plates 3–10.

80 See Lehmann, K., Samothrace, A giade4 etc. (New York, 1975) 61 f.Google Scholar; cf. the plan of the site at end. In Hesp. xxi the area was called ‘the precinct on the Central Terrace’.

81 Hesp. xxi (1952) 35.

82 Ibid. From Guide4, 15 and Lehmann, P. W., Skopas in Samothrace (Northampton, Mass., 1973) 2 f.Google Scholar, it appears that this is still accepted doctrine.

83 The area has been dug officially twice, and has been much damaged by natural erosion, illicit digging, and agricultural operations. All this in addition to repeated rearrangement in antiquity. See Lehmann, , Hesp. xxi 1921Google Scholar and plates 3–8.

84 Op. cit. 37.

85 Bernard, 140, fig. 52 (no. 220); see also 142.

86 These famous cups are discussed by, among others, Desborough, V., Protogeometric Pottery (Oxford, 1952) 180–94Google Scholar; Hanfmann, G. M. A., The Aegean and the Near East: Studies presented to Hetty Goldman (New York, 1956) 173–5Google Scholar; and Coldstream, J. N., Greek Geometric Pottery (London, 1968) 156 f., 310 f.Google ScholarBuchholz, H. G., Berl. Jahr.f. Vor- und Frühgesch. v (1965) 224–31Google Scholar, provided a comprehensive list (with bibliography) of finds to that date, and Riis', P. J. useful discussion in Sukas I (Copenhagen, 1970)Google Scholar is particularly valuable for their distribution in the East. For the chronological conclusions drawn from their supposed absence from the West, see especially Boardman, J., JHS lxxxv (1965) 12 n. 27Google Scholar; cf. Greek Emporio (BSA Suppl. 6; London, 1967) 117, and Desborough, V., AA 1963, 206Google Scholar. In Dial. di Arch. iii (1969) 118 f. Boardman's statement about chronology is more in tune with the evidence as a whole. For examples found in the west, see BSA lxviii (1973) 191 f., where there is a useful general discussion of the shape by O. T. P. K. Dickinson; NSc. xxvi (1972) 256 fig. 36 (p. 246).

87 I am indebted to Professor J. N. Coldstream for information on this point. On the new Eretria, see the brief, clear, account by Auberson, Paul, ‘Chalcis, Lefkandi, Erétrie au VIIIe siècle’, Cahiers du Centre Jean Bernard II (Naples, 1975) 914.Google Scholar For skyphoi with pendent concentric semicircles at Eretria, see AAA iii (1970) 314 ff.

88 Actes du VIIIe Congrès etc. (Paris, 1965) 299–303; see especially 302 f.

89 BCH lxxxvi (1962) 936: ‘vestiges d'un habitat qui semble avoir précédé l'occupation parienne …’; cf. lxxxv (1961) 936: ‘poterie indigène contemporaine de la colonisation parienne ou même antérieure à celle-ci.’

90 See especially Salviat, ibid., though the facts are more fully presented in Bernard, passim. On the Cycladic influences after c. 650, see also Boardman, Greek Overseas2, 225.

91 See Bernard, 143 f., where these arguments are briefly listed together with useful bibliographical notes.

92 For this and what follows, see his ‘Conclusion’, 142–6.

93 His italics, p. 144.

94 Bernard, 145.

95 Bernard, 146.

96 Fond. Hardt X, Archiloque (Geneva, 1964) 1–27.

97 Op. cit. 15.

98 See his description of the Thracian inhabitants, 14 f., and especially the remark (15) that these habitations were perhaps discovered by Telesicles when he came to found the new city.

99 Op. cit. 15 f.

100 Op. cit. 22 f., 16f.; see also Et. Thas. Ill 25f., 330.

101 Kondoleon, , in the Discussion, Fond. Hardt x. 36.Google Scholar

102 For the position of the sites, see Lazaridis, D., Thasos and its Peraia (Athens, 1971) figs. 20, 23, 26Google Scholar, etc. The investigations at the two sites are published by Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, H., in Arch. Eph. (Chr.) 1970, 1622Google Scholar, and AAA iii (1970) 215–22.

103 Arch. Eph. (Chr.) 1970, 18 f.

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105 Arch.Eph. (Chr.) 18, 1970, 21f.

106 AAA iii (1970) 220.

107 Op. cit. 215 f.

108 AAA vi (1973) 240.

109 Actes du VIIIe Congrès d'Arch. Class. 302. In the Guide de Thasos (preface by G. Daux, Paris, 1967) 2, a compromise is attempted: ‘vestiges d'habitations qui pourraient correspondre à une phase légèrement antérieure à l'installation des colons’.

110 Cf. Jacoby, , ‘The date of Archilochus’, CQ xxxv (1941) 97109CrossRefGoogle Scholar (hereinafter simply Jacoby), especially 102 f. For the literary evidence, see Jacobs, E., Thasiaca (Berlin, 1893) 612Google Scholar; IG XII. 8 pp. 74 ff. (C. Fredrich, 1909); RE s.v. Thasos 1310–27 (F. Hiller von Gärtringen, 1934); Pouilloux, J., Et. Thas. III 22 ff.Google Scholar

111 Thuc. IV 104.4; Strabo, X, 487.

112 Hdt. II 44. 3–4; VI 47. 1; Ps-Scymnus 659–64; Apoll. Bibl. II 5. 9. 3–5 and 13; IG XIV 1293A, 83–4.

113 Ed. Schoene, II 34; Hieronymus, Chron. ed. Helm, P. (Die Griech. Christi. Schrifts. d. erst. Jahrh., Eusebius VII; Berlin, 1956) 48b.Google Scholar

114 Cf. Jacobs, op. cit. 12; note the express connection of Thasus and Cadmus in Ps-Scymnus, loc. cit.

115 Stromata I 131.7 (Die Griech. Christl. Schrifts. etc., Clem. Alex. II, Berlin, 1960, p. 81).

116 It is universally taken to come from Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ Χρόνοι; see Jacoby, 99 n. 1 and FGH 251 fr. 3, with commentary ad loc.

117 Jacoby, 102 n. 4; Blakeway, A., ‘The date of Archilochus’, in Greek Poetry and Life. Essays presented to Gilbert Murray (Oxford, 1936) 51.Google Scholar

118 Jacoby, 100 with nn. 1 and 2; 99 n. 2; 103 n. 2; Blakeway, op. cit. 50.

119 This rather simple statement is enough for our present purposes. For the many complicated questions about the character and aims of the Stromata, see Méhat, André, Étude sur les ‘Stromates’ de Clement d'Alexandrie (Patristica Sorbonensia 7, Paris, 1966).Google Scholar

120 ναὶ μὴν καὶ Τέρπανδρον ἀρχαἱӡουσί τινες (I. 131. 6.).

121 That this is the correct translation of γεγονέναι, and not ‘was born’, was shown in general by Rhode, , Rh. Mus. xxxiii (1878) 162 f.Google Scholar

122 i.e. Phainias of Eresos; see Jacoby, 100 n. 1.

123 Ἑλλάνικος γοῦν τοῦτον ἱστορεῖ κατὰ Μίδαν γεγονέναι, Φανίας δὲ πρὸ Τερπάνδρου τιθεὶς Λέσχην τὸν Λέσβιον ᾿Αρχιλόχου νεώτερον φέρει τὸν Τέρπανδρον, διημιλλῆσθαι δὲ τὸν Λέσχην ᾿Αρκτίνῳ καὶ νενικηκέναι Ξάνθος δὲ ὁ Λυδὸς περὶ τὴν ὀκτωκαιδεκάτην ὀλυμπιάδα (ὡς δὲ Διονύσιος, περὶ τὴν πεντεκαιδεκάτην) Θάσον ἐκτίσθαι, ὡς εἴναι συμφανὲς τὸν ᾿Αρχίλοχον μετὰ τὴν εἰκοστὴν ἤδη γνωριӡεσθαι ὀλυμπιάδα μέμνηται γοῦν καὶ τῆς Μαγνήτων ἀπωλείας προσφάτως γεγενημένης κτλ.

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126 Op. cit. 50 f.

127 Ibid.

128 100 n. 3.

129 See Christ, W., Abh. Bayr. Akad. xxi, 3 (1901) 509.Google Scholar

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131 Jacoby, 103 n. 2.

132 Blakeway, op. cit. 51.

133 Jacoby, ibid.

134 Here Jacoby followed the false lead of Blakeway, even though he disagreed in detail.

135 von Gutschmid, A., Kleine Schriften (Leipsig, 1892) III 474Google Scholar, but first published in 1885. See, however, Rhode's acknowledgement (next note).

136 Rh. Mus. xxxiii (1878) 194 f.

137 Most clearly Pliny, N.H. XXXV, 23.Google Scholar

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141 Jacoby, 101.

142 Kaletsch, H., ‘Zur Lydischen Chronologie’, Historia VII (1958) 147Google Scholar. The date of Gyges’ death is almost certain (Kaletsch, 29 f.; cf. Jacoby, 99) but the beginning of his reign is only to be achieved by calculation. Jacoby was prepared to use the duration of his reign given in Greek sources and the date of his death to give the dates about 687–652 (ibid.). Kaletsch rejects this procedure as unhistorical, and more cautiously chooses c. 680, after a full discussion of the various indications (30—4).

143 Jacoby, 109; cf. 101 n. 7 and 107.

144 Frg. 44 = Aelian V.H. x. 13, printed in Treu, M., Archilochus (Munich, 1959) 120Google Scholar, and Archilochus, ed. I. Tarditi (Rome, 1968) T.46. The sense of the words … οὐκ ἄν ἐπυθόμεθα…οὔθ᾿ ὅτι καταλιπὼν Πάρον διὰ πενίαν καὶ ἀπορίαν ἧλθεν εἰς Θάσον οὔθ᾿ ὅτι ἐλθὼν τοῖς ἐνταῦθα ἐχθρὸς ἐγένετο. … seems clear. There are many other texts which bear on this question; see below pp. 84 ff.

145 CAH III 654 (1929).

146 As, for example, Pouilloux; see above p. 71; Salviat, F. and Weill, N., BCH lxxxiv (1960) 383.Google Scholar

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148 Burn, A. R., JHS lv (1935) 122.Google Scholar Jacoby, in a rather confused note, 102 n. 4, prefers two generations, but earlier accepts that the founder is Telesicles, according to the oracle.

149 Cf. Pouilloux, , Et. Thas. III 24Google Scholar: ‘L'importance de ce texte a été dès longtemps reconnue.’

150 See Die Griech. Christl. Schrifts. etc., Eusebius VIII.I (Berlin, 1954) p. 314; Eusebius, , Praep. Evang. ed. Gifford, F. H. (Oxford, 1903) i. p. 328 f.Google Scholar; for translation, III. 1 p. 276; for notes, IV p. 207 f.; Frag. Phil. Graec. ed. Mullach, F. G. A. (Paris, 1867) II frg. 14 (pp. 380 f.).Google Scholar For the oracle, cf. also Parke, H. W. and Wormell, D. E. W., The Delphic Oracle (Oxford, 1956) II no. 230.Google Scholar

151 Et. Thas. III 24.

152 See Liddell and Scott, s.v., I. 3; e.g. Eur. IT 704.

153 Liddell and Scott, s.v., I. 1; e.g. Od. XVI. 350.

154 Stephani Byzantini Gentilicia (Leyden, 1694) s.v. Thasos.

155 See n. 124 above.

156 E.g. the edition of L. Holsten and others, Leipsig, 1825, and Steph. Byz., Ἐθνικῶν quae supersunt, ed. Westermann, A. (Leipsig, 1839)Google Scholar, s.v. Θάσσος.

157 Jacoby, 103.

158 Cf. Parke and Wormell, op. cit. II p. xi.

159 For this translation, see below pp. 80 f.

160 See G. L. Prendergast, ConcordanceIliad, and Henry Dunbar, ConcordanceOdyssey, s.v. κελεύεις.

161 As far as the concordances allow, I have checked all occurrences of ὡς with κελεύω. It always means as.

162 Cf. Parke and Wormell, op. cit. II, Prolegomena, especially xvi–xxi.

163 Cf. Pease, A. S., ‘The Delphic Oracle and Colonisation’, CP xii (1917) 120Google Scholar, especially 6: ‘The enquirers are sometimes groups—cities, bands of exiles, families—and often individuals, usually the οἰκιστής.

164 Op. cit. II no. 230 and I 66.

165 A History of the Delphic Oracle (Oxford, 1939) 68.

166 Et. Thas. III 24 f. However, he wrote more cautiously in Fond. Hardt x. 9: ‘Oracles—vrais ou apocryphes.’

167 There is a similar contradiction between the discussion about Archilochus and Delphi, I. 396 f., and two of the oracles in question, II. nos. 231, 232. These and similar contradictions not surprisingly drew the criticism of Berve, H., Gnomon xxx (1958) 422 f.Google Scholar

168 CQ. n.s. viii (1958) 93.

169 Kondoleon, N. M., Arch. Eph. 1952, 3295Google Scholar; ‘Archilochos und Paros’, Fond. Hardt x. 39–54. There is a very good short account of the inscriptions in Bull. Epig. 1955, 178. See also SEG XV 517, where the texts are readily accessible. Also M. Treu, Archilochos, 152–4; Archilochus, ed. I. Tarditi, T4.

170 Col. II. 22–55 (for the visit to Delphi and the oracle, 43–52).

171 CQ. n.s. viii (1958) 93.

172 Op. cit. 94. Cf. Parke and Wormell, op. cit., II, nos. 4, 5 (responses to Calondas the Crow of Naxos, killer of Archilochus); 230 (foundation oracle of Thasos); 231 (response to Telesicles foretelling his son's greatness); and 232 (order to Archilochus to settle in Thasos).

173 Tarditi, G., ‘La nuova epigrafe Archilochea e la tradizione biografica del poeta’, PP xi (1956) 122–39.Google Scholar It is clear that Parke's paper, which appeared later, was written without knowledge of Tarditi's work.

174 Op. cit. 130.

175 Plut. Numa iv. 6; cf. Tarditi, 131.

176 Ibid.

177 Tarditi, 133 f. On the dating, see 137 f. It must be after Pindar's second Pythian (52 ff.), which can be taken to show that Archilochus was still not in favour at Delphi, and before the first attestation of the story of his killer's reception at Delphi (Heracl. Pont. 8, of Aristotelian derivation).

178 Tarditi, 133 f.

179 Ibid.

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181 CP xii (1917) 13.

182 Op. cit. 50 (his italics).

183 Jacoby, 103; F. Lasserre and A. Bonnard (Budé edition, Paris, 1958) frg. 263; Archilochus, ed. Tarditi, 246.

184 Cf. SEG XV 517. A II 43–5. Even if we do not go as far as Tarditi (PP xi 131), who regards Telesicles as created for the purpose of his role in the Delphian biography of Archilochus. He may be right, since neither the epitaph of Archilochus, ᾿Αρχίλοχος Πάριος Τελεσικλέος ἐνθάδε κεῖται Το͂ Δόκιμος μνημήιον ὁ Νεοκρέωντος τόδ᾿ ἔθηκεν (Ergon 1961, 184 f.; BCH lxxxv (1961) 846 f.; Bull. Epig. 1962, 261; Kondoleon, N. M., Fond. Hardt x. 44–6.Google Scholar It was inscribed in the fourth century.), nor the occurrence of the name Telesicles at Thasos (Pouilloux, Et. Thas. III. Catalogue I Col. 4.47 (opp. p. 262); IG XII. 8. 278. 17), nor even Critias' knowledge of the name of Archilochus' mother (frg. 44 = Aelian V.H. X 13) necessarily refute him. But perhaps the last does suggest that die name of Archilochus' father was preserved.

185 Eusebius, , Praep. Evang., ed. Gaisford, T. (Oxford, 1843) II p. 44.Google Scholar

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187 IV p. 208.

188 Frg. 40 D (= 38 in Tarditi's edition); cf. 2 D (= 2 in Tarditi's edition).

189 Op. cit. 50.

190 102 n. 4: ‘Blakeway's compromise … seems to me neither helpful nor probable.’

191 E.g. Charon (Contemplantes) I (Loeb II p. 396); Pisc. (Reviviscentes) 12 (Loeb III p. 18); Scytha (Hospes) 4 (Loeb VI p. 246).

192 Lines 17–21 of P. Oxy. 2310, which is attributed to Archilochus (54 in Tarditi's edition), have been interpreted as referring to Thasos and to Archilochus' own prospects of becoming ruler diere; see Lasserre, F., Mus. Helv. xiii (1956) 233Google Scholar; cf. Rankin, H. D.Ant. Class. xliv (1975) 608Google Scholar f. Since we do not know who spoke those fragmentary lines, nor to whom they refer, nor to what city, no historical conclusions can be based on them. For the variety of possible interpretations, see Tarditi's apparatus, and, e.g. Peek, W., Phil., xcix (1955) 193 ff.Google Scholar; Steffen, W., Proc. IX Int. Cong. Pap., Oslo 1958 (1961) 18 ff.Google Scholar; Page, D., Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. vii (1961) 68 f.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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198 Cf. n. 184 above.

199 Pouilloux, Et. Thas. III no. 31, col. I. 6 (p. 269); Catalogue I, Col. 4. 47 (opp. p. 262).

200 See RE s.v. Tellis, 1, 406. The idea that Tellis should be the great-grandfather was revived by Wistrand, , Fond. Hardt x. 35 f.Google Scholar

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203 See above pp. 75 ff.

204 Et. Thas. III 25 f., 330; Fond. Hardt x. 22 f., 36. Also Blakeway, it seems; op. cit. 49 n. 2. E. Jacobs had already noted that, if the genealogy of Tellis is genuine (and Tellis was connected with Thasos, A. J. G.) then the relations between Paros and Thasos began before the colony was sent out (Thasiaca 10).

205 Apoll. Bibl. II. 5. 13; IG XIV 1293A, 83–4. Cf. M. Launey, Et. Thas. I 215 f., followed by Bernard, 143.

206 For these ideas, see RE s.v. Tellis, 1, 406; Frazer, loc. cit.

207 In proposing this radical change, which seems to me unavoidable on the arguments presented above, I am encouraged by the fact that not all scholars in the past have been happy with the idea of Telesicles as oikistes of Thasos. Thus E. Jacobs' omission of any statement to this effect, op. cit., must surely be taken as silent rejection, since H. Hasselbach had written long before ‘Telesicle, Archilochi patre, duce, ut videtur, Pariorum colonia eo (sc. Thasum) pervenit’; see De insula Thaso (Marburg, 1838) 14. E. Meyer thought the oracle absurd; see Gesch. des Altertums II (Stuttgart, 1893) 467, repeated unchanged in the second edition (Stuttgart, 1937) III. 434 n. 2. Cf. also Reverdin, O., Fond. Hardt x. 29Google Scholar: ‘pour autant que Thasos ait bien considéré Télésiclès comme son véritable κτίστης.’

208 E.g. Pouilloux, , Et. Thas. III 34Google Scholar: ‘Télésiklès à la tête d'une poignée de Pariens se saisit de l'acropole Thasienne etc.’ Devambez, , Journal des Savants, 1955, 74Google Scholar: ‘La maigre troupe des compagnons de Télésiklès etc.’; Chamoux, , REG lxxii (1959) 362Google Scholar: ‘les problèmes que se posaient aux compagnons de Télésiclès etc.’

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211 See n. 169 above.

212 E.g. Treu, Archilochos, 40 ff. The terminology of SEG XV 517, (lapis) A (col.) III etc., is better.

213 It is possible to argue about the precise nature of the Archilocheion, but its character in general is clearly established by Mnesiepes' inscription and several analogous foundations; see Kondoleon, , Fond. Hardt x. 51–4Google Scholar; Robert, J. and Robert, L., Bull. Epig. 1955, 178.Google Scholar

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215 Gossage, A. J., Rh. Mus. xciv (1951) 213–21.Google Scholar

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217 Tarditi, , PP xi (1956) 128Google Scholar, sees differences in content and expression. As regards the former, we have to remember that we lack much of both inscriptions.

218 Mnesiepes' inscription, SEG XV 517, A II 1–22.

219 Sosthenes' inscription, A I. 6ff.; cf. 1 ff.

220 FGH no. 502.

221 Op. cit. 128 f. His main point is that the verb used to describe Demeas' activity in the passage referred to in n. 219 above, ἀν]αγέγραφεν, should mean ‘inscribed’ rather than ‘composed’.

222 Cf. Kondoleon's opposition, Fond. Hardt x. 50 f.

223 Mnesiepes' inscription, SEG XV 517, A II. 22 ff.

224 This is the standard form in both inscriptions. For the way it is done, see Sosthenes' inscription, A I 40 ff., cf. A IV 1; Mnesiepes' inscription, B I 12 ff.

225 For the way in which the biography was based on material in Archilochus' poems, cf. Tarditi, op. cit. 132 ff.

226 See Mnesiepes' inscription, B I 1 ff., and the suggested restorations in Sosthenes' inscription, A I 2–5. Tarditi asked the pertinent question, what were the honours which Mnesiepes paid the poet, with Apollo's approval (A II 14 f., 18 f.). His acute reply was that the laudatory and apologetic biography which follows itself constituted the honours mentioned; see Tarditi, op. cit. 124.

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230 Or re-settled; see Strabo VI 264; Athen. XII 523c. The complex tradition is discussed by Jacoby, FGH III. B Kommentar, p. 495. On the history of the foundation, see Bérard, J.La colonisation grecque de l'Italie méridionale et de la Sicile dans l'antiquité (Paris, 1957) 187–98Google Scholar, and Dunbabin, T. J., The Western Greeks (Oxford, 1948) 34 f.Google Scholar, both of whom conclude that the Lydian attacks must belong to Gyges' reign. The archaeological evidence for Greek settlement from the later eighdi century on the neighbouring site of the later Heraclea has led some to conclude that the date of the colonization of Siris should be put earlier; see Lo Porto, F. G., ‘Civiltà indigena e penetrazione greca nella Lucania orientale’, MA xlviii (1973) nn. 6 and 731.Google Scholar It is perhaps safer to conclude that there was Greek settlement in the region before the arrival of the Colophonians in flight from the Lydians, and that this explains the literary tradition that these Colophonians settled an existing city. On the archaeological zone of Siris and Heraclea, and the relation ship of sites etc., see Neutsch, B., Herakleiastudien, Arch. Forsch. in Lukanien II (Röm. Mitt., Ergänzungsheft 11, Heidelberg, 1967) 104 ff.Google Scholar

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232 Fr. 54 D. (= 88 in Tarditi's edition): Πανελλήνων ὀϊӡὺς ἐς Θάσον συνέδραμεν.

233 Cf. above p. 80 and n. 188.

234 Fr. 19 D. (= Tarditi 19): κλαίω τὰ Θασίων, οὐ τὰ Μαγνήτων κακά; fr. 129 Bergk (= Tarditi 157): Θάσον δὲ τὴν τρισοϊӡυρὴν πόλιν. Cf. the remarks of Pouilloux, , Fond. Hardt x. 13 f.Google Scholar, 25, 31 and of Page, Reverdin and others, 80 f.

235 First of all in the notorious shield poem, 6 D. (= Tarditi 8): ἀσπίδι μὲν Σαἴων τις ἀγάλλεται κτλ. Sosthenes' inscription, A I. 40–52, has the longest passage about dealings with the Thracians, but is unfortunately not only fragmentary, but also corrupt (clearly 51 f. ). Some Thracians are definitely killed (49 f.); pure gold is brought for Thracian dogs (…εὀς Θάσον, κυσ̣ὶ Θρέϊξιν δῶρ᾿ ἔχων ἀκήρατον χρυσόν 48 f.). It is tempting to connect these lines with Callimachus, Aetia fr. 104 (the murder by Parians of Oisydres the Thracian, which was followed by troubles for Thasos: fr. Οἰσύδρεω Θρήϊκος ἐφ᾿ αἵματι πολλὰ Θάσοιο; commentary, φησὶν Παρίους Οἰσύδρην τὸν Θρᾷκα φονε[ύ]σαντας διαπολιορκηθῆναι Θασί[οις δ᾿ ] ὡς τὸ ἀρέσκον Βισάλταις [ἐ]πιτίμιο[ν τ]ίνειν ἔχρησιν ὁ θεός. The supplements are by Pfeiffer, R., Callimachus [Oxford, 1949]Google Scholar. Unfortunately the rest of the commentary is too mutilated to restore). Cf. Pouilloux, Et. Thas. III 30f.; Fond. Hardt x. 17; and Bernard, 143 n. 5, who rightly emphasizes the uncertainties in the detailed interpretation of this incomplete passage. Also perhaps with fr. 61 D. (=Tarditi 97): ἑπτὰ γὰρ νεκρῶν πεσόντων, οὕς ἐμάρψαμεν ποσίν, χείλιοι φονῆές εἰμεν, where the thousand immediately reminds us of χ〈ε〉ιλίους γὰρ ἄν[δρας in Sosthenes' inscription, A IV 22; cf. Diehl3, note ad loc. Finally, fr. 79a D. (= Tarditi 193), the Thracians at Salmydessus, merely shows the poet's awareness of their dangerous characteristics.

236 Fighting most unmistakably in fr. 6 D. (= Tarditi 8), but presumably also in Sosthenes' inscription, and, if the connection is right, in 61 D. (= Tarditi 97); see previous note. That fragment attests shameful behaviour, and Callimachus, Aetia fr. 104, reveals that the god ordered the Thasians (or Parians, with different supplements; see Pfeiffer's ap. crit.) to make amends to the Bisaltai for the killing of Oisydres. Also the gift of pure gold to the Thracian dogs (see previous note) brought general evils, if private gain (οἰκείω〈ι〉 δὲ κέρδει ξύν᾿ ἐποίησαν κακά, Sosthenes' inscription, A I 49).

237 Pouilloux thinks that the struggles attested by Sosthenes' inscription and by Call. Aetia fr. 104 took place on Thasos rather than the mainland; see Fond. Hardt x. 18. But we know that the Thasians were already interested in the mainland in Archilochus' lifetime; see Pouilloux, , Et. Thas. III 33Google Scholar (the clearest evidence is Philochorus FGH 328 frg. 43 = Harpocration s.v. Στρύμη). Further, since we have the names of two, if not three, Thracian tribes in these events (Saioi, fr. 6 D., Bisaltai, Call. Aetia fr. 104 [Commentary], and Sapai [?], Sosthenes' inscription, A I 51), it might be thought difficult to locate all the contacts on Thasos itself. There is the additional point that the Thracians on Thasos were probably Edonians; see below n. 253.

238 See n. 235 above

239 See my Colony and Mother City in Ancient Greece (Manchester, 1971) 72 f.

240 This seems to be indicated by Critias, fr. 44 (see n. 144 above); by his death in a war presumably between Paros and Naxos (since his killer, Carondas the Crow, was a Naxian; see Aelian, fr. 80 [Teubner]; Plut. Mor. 560 D-E; Dio. Chrys. xxxiii. 12); and by his grave on Paros (see p. 83 and n. 184 above). It is true that a sceptic might doubt the worth of all these indications. On Archilochus' possible movements, see Jacoby 109.

241 SEG IX 3. 33–7; see my Colony and Mother City, 53.

242 As at Naupactus; see ML 20 and my comments, op. cit. 52 f.

243 As Pouilloux, Fond. Hardt x. 9 f.; cf. Et. Thas. III 26. On the oracles, see above pp. 78–80.

244 Jacoby, 97–109, especially 106 f.; though he presses the evidence unnecessarily.

245 See above pp. 70 ff. On the other reason for regarding the culture discovered in these sondages as Greek—Bernard's identification of the apsidal house as Greek in type—see above pp. 65 f. and 71.

246 See above p. 76 and n. 88.

247 See above p. 71.

248 J. Boardman, Greeks Overseas 2, 225; Bernard, 77; Pouilloux, Fond. Hardt x. 14, 17.

249 Cf. the judicious discussion by Weill, N. and Salviat, F., BCH lxxxiv (1960) 382–6, lxxxv (1961) 120–2.Google Scholar The oriental ivory lions found in the so-called west fill of the Artemision have been used for chronology; see Pouilloux, , Fond. Hardt x. 16Google Scholar: ‘Ils datent, au plus tard, du deuxième quart du VIIe siècle etc.’ But the full publication by Salviat, , BCH lxxxvi (1962) 95116CrossRefGoogle Scholar, shows that these ivories are, in fact, useless for chronological purposes. They were found in a fill laid down in the second quarter of the fifth century (BCH lxxxiii [1959] 775), consisting of archaic dedications going back to the seventh century (BCH lxxxvi [1962] 112). Salviat argued, 112–16, that the analogous ivories found in the east did not preclude the possibility that the Thasian ones were current in the second quarter of the seventh century (i.e. after the supposed foundation of Parian Thasos in 680); hence Pouilloux' statement. But, far from having a good independent date for the ivories, Salviat was using the presumed foundation date of Thasos to throw doubt on the high dates proposed by some for similar ivories found in die east. On such ivories in general, see Mallowan, M. E. L., Nimrud and its remains II (London, 1966) 471 ff.Google Scholar, and Winter, Irene J., ‘Phoenician and North Syrian ivory carving in historical context’, Iraq xxxviii (1976) 122.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Dr. Winter (to whom I am most grateful for helpful discussions of this question) tells me that in her opinion the best parallels for the Thasian ivories are at Zincirli and at Samaria (in this agreeing with Salviat, 100 ff.). She would assign them to a postulated South Syrian group (this in addition to the North Syrian and Phoenician groups distinguished earlier; cf. Winter ibid.), and date them to the eighth century B.C. Dr. Winter intends to develop the hypothesis of the South Syrian ivories in a forthcoming publication.

Viewed purely as dating evidence, the remains of such a luxurious object (? an ivory throne), far removed from any chronological context in which it had existed in its original form, are manifestly valueless. Who can tell how this sumptuous object reached the Artemision? Or how old it was when it came there? But it seems to me likely (as against Salviat, 112) that it was a valued antique rather than a contemporary production when it was dedicated to Artemis.

250 Fond. Hardt x. 60.

251 VIIIe Cong. Arch. Class. 300 f. Boardman, however, argues with some sarcasm against a change of title. In his view the attribution to Paros is no better founded than the title ‘Melian’; see Boardman, John and Hayes, John, Excavations at Tocra 1963–5, The Archaic Deposits I (BSA Suppl. 4, London, 1966) 15.Google Scholar In taking this line he differs not only from Kondoleon, Salviat, and others, but also from his fellow-author; see p. 73. For the uncertainty in attributing pottery from the Cyclades, see Tocra II (BSA Suppl. 10, London, 1973) 73 f.

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254 Above p. 71 f.

255 AAA vi (1973) 239 f.

256 See above pp. 62 f.

257 See above p. 65.

258 Pp. 66 ff.

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264 Op. cit.; see especially 276–82. For the inscription cf. also Bull. Epig. 1965, 316.

265 Salviat and Servais, op. cit. 282 f.

266 See Salviat and Servais, op. cit. 284. On Kinyras, Kinyreia etc., see RE s.v. Kinyras. I am grateful to Dr. T. Muraoka of the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Manchester, for expert advice on this matter.

267 The opinions on the subject down to that date were usefully set out by Seyrig, H., BCH li (1927) 186Google Scholar n. 1. For a brief indication of the views of scholars since that time, see van Berchem (next note), 88.

268 ‘Sanctuaires d'Hercule-Melqart, contribution à l'étude de l'expansion phénicienne en Méditerranée’, Syria xliv (1967) 73–109, 307–36. For Thasos, see especially 88–109. It was very unfortunate that Bergquist wrote her study of Herakles on Thasos without knowledge of van Berchem's work; see Bergquist, Birgitta, Herakles on Thasos (Uppsala studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations, 5, Uppsala, 1973), especially p. 18Google Scholar: ‘Apart from Pouilloux's work, there seems to have been no particularly extensive discussion of Herakles and the Herakleion on Thasos.…’ However, her independent arguments from the material remains point in general to similar conclusions to those reached by van Berchem, in particular that there were not two cults, one of the god, one of the hero, at the Thasian Heracleum.

269 Van Berchem, 74–7.

270 Van Berchem, 80–7.

271 P. 88. Apart from Hdt. II 44. 3–4, see Paus. V 25. 12.

272 Van Berchem, 87–102. In this part of his work he deals admirably with the complexities in the evidence for the cult of Heracles at Thasos. Cf. also Bergquist, op. cit., especially Part II, but van Berchem's interpretations seem to me in detail superior (e.g. on the meaning of ἐνατεύειν; Bergquist 71–80, van Berchem 100–2).

273 See pp. 92–4, 97 f.; cf. 84. Bergquist, however, thinks that the peripteral building erected in her ‘third period’ (i.e. mid fifth to late fourth or early third century B.C.) was a temple to house the god's image; see op. cit. 47.

274 Van Berchem, 102. Bergquist, op. cit. 37, also thinks that the Soteria was probably a festival of Heracles.

275 Pp. 106 f.

276 P. 108. Cf., for the long preservation of cult practices, even when populations change, the arguments and evidence on pp. 77–9. Bergquist, who accepts the notion of Phoenician colonization of Thasos before that of the Greeks (op. cit. 19, 35), wonders if the cult of Heracles on Thasos may have had Phoenician elements (37).

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278 P. 108.

279 See above p. 67.

280 The inscriptions cited by van Berchem (108 n. 4) show us merely that there was a temple of Heracles on the island from the fourth century B.C. (IG XII 8. 18–22, notably 19).

281 Il. xxiii 745; cf. RE s.v. Thoas (2).

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283 For the probable character of the image, see Frazer, Pausanias, commentary ad loc. (IV 127 f.).

284 Courband, E., ‘La navigation d'Hercule’, Mél. Arch. Hist. Ecol. Franç, Rome, xii (1892) 274–88Google Scholar, and Frazer, ibid. L. R. Farnell cast doubt on the interpretation without any strong arguments; Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality (Oxford, 1921) 164.

285 See Frazer, ibid.; Farnell, 161.

286 Farnell, 160–5, whose own interpretation is vitiated by the lame suggestion that Thracian was merely an indication of servile status; cf. W. R., Halliday, Greek Questions of Plutarch (Oxford, 1928) 215.Google Scholar

287 Frazer, ibid.; cf. Farnell, 163.

288 See the criticisms of Farnell, 160; Halliday, 215.

289 Van Berchem, 108; cf. 86, 317 ff.

290 Farnell, 161.

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293 Et. Thas. III 30 f., 34; Fond. Hardt x. 15 f.

294 Et. Thas. III ibid., and 16 f., 21, 311–13.

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297 Et. Thas. III 15 f.

298 See n. 277 above.

299 Op. cit. 73 f.

300 ‘L'isle de Thasos et son histoire’, REG lxxii (1959) 348–69.

301 See pp. 350 f.

302 ibid.

303 See n. 295 above.

304 Op. cit. 218.

305 On Thucydides and his family, see Cavaignac, , REG iii (1929) 281–5Google Scholar; Wade-Gery, , JHS lii (1932) 210 f.Google Scholar; Gomme, Commentary ad IV 105. 1; O. Luschat, RE Suppl. XII, s.v. Thukydides, 1089 ff.; Davies, J. K., Athenian Propertied Families 600–300 B.C. (Oxford, 1971) 233–7.Google Scholar It is possible to argue about details, but the general scheme proposed by Cavaignac seems convincing. In view of the clear evidence for relationship between Thucydides and the Philaids, to explain the patronymic other than as in memory of the Thracian king seems an unnecessary multiplication of hypotheses.

306 The Life thought his mining possessions came through his marriage to a rich Thracian; 19. But it is notorious that much of what we have in the Life is invented on the basis of information in Thucydides' own work. See RE loc. cit. 1087. It is also suspicious that the biographer gives him actual property in Thrace, in contrast to the mining concession carefully specified by Thucydides himself, IV 105. 1, as it is also suspicious that his mine should have been located at Skapte Hyle (14, 25, 47; cf. Plut. Mor. 605 c), the only place-name known in the mining district (Hdt. vi 46). So this information in the Life has been rejected as invented (see RE loc. cit. 1096). The idea that Thucydides' concession came as a result of Athens' appropriation of the possessions of Thasos (as still Davies, op. cit. 236 f.) is surely wrong. Our evidence suggests that such concessions were the result of private arrangements with the Thracian owners (RE loc. cit. 1095 f.). It is commonly objected to the theory that Thucydides' concession was an inheritance from the Thracian king Oloros that we then have the problem of a Thracian king in the Chersonese owning property in the Pangaean area (ibid. 1089 f.). But nothing in our evidence requires us to see this as a problem, and it is not even certain that Oloros was at home in the Chersonese; see Cavaignac, op. cit. 284.

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314 Pp. 84 f. and nn. 234–7.

315 As Treu, op. cit. 137, who says that the poem is really an attack on Peisistratos, and the Thracians come better out of it than he does.

316 See above p. 82 and n. 253. The myth is well analysed by Jacobs, Thasiaca 8–10. He thinks that an original story about Alcaeus and Sthenelus, grandsons of Minos (and from Paros) was later inserted in the tale of Heracles’ ninth labour, because of the importance of Heracles at Thasos.

317 For example, the various justifications used by the Athenians for their colonization of Sigeum (Aesch. Eum. 397 ff., Hdt. v 94. 2), of Lemnos (Hdt. vi 137–40), of Scyros (Plut. Cim, viii 5f.), and of Amphipolis (Aeschines II. 31); but see also my Colony and Mother City, 204 f. It was not only the Athenians. Consider, for example, Gela and Acragas; Dunbabin, T. J., The Western Greeks, 112, 318.Google Scholar Cf. in general the remarks of Sjöqvist, E., Sicily and the Greeks (Ann Arbor, 1973) 2 f.Google Scholar, 9, and, regarding Thasos, Bergitta Bergquist, Herakles on Thasos, 36.

318 P. 70.

319 Salviat, VIIIe Cong. Arch. Class. 299.

320 Ibid, and BCH lxxxvi (1962) 949–59, especially 957. Guide de Thasos 84–8.

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330 All from Eusebius; see n. 326 above.

331 Q.G. xxx.

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333 Hdt. i 168.

334 As Bérard, loc. cit.

335 See above n. 331.

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340 Cf. my remarks in JHS xci (1971) 39, 46 f.

341 Hdt. i 168.

342 Thuc. IV 102. 2–3.

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349 Plut. Q.G. xxx.

350 See above p. 94.

351 See above p. 72.

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355 Cf. my Colony and Mother City, chs. III and IX.