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Note on the Nova Hellenicorum Oxyrhychiorum Fragmenta

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Alexander Fuks
Alexander Fuks
Affiliation:
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY, JERUSALEM.
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Maas's annotation on Fr. C, col. I in his edition of the new fragments (C.Q. xliv. 8–11) says: ‘fortasse conferendi Diod. 13. 66. 6; Xen. Hell. 1. 3. 16–22; Dionys. Byz. Anapl. 13’.

The comparison of Fr. C, col. I with the passage in Dionys. Byz. De Bospori Navigatione 13 seems to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the city referred to in the fragment is Byzantion. Consequently the supposition that the papyrus tells the story of the siege of Byzantion—dealt with in the other two passages quoted by Maas—becomes almost a certainty.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 3-4 , July 1951 , pp. 155
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1951

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1 I am indebted to Professor H. T. Wade Gery for his help.

2 If the author of the new fragments is identical with the Historian of Oxyrh. (and the Fr. B, Col. II. 21—Hell. Oxy. II. 4 seems to point in this direction), Diodoros' dependence would seem even more certain.

3 Xenophon does not happen to mention the sailing of Alkibiades to Klazomenai (Diod. 13. 71.1—Fr. B, col. I). This event is slightly earlier than the battle and closely connected with it. The siege and capture of Byzantion took place before, Klazomenai and Notion after, Alkibiades* return from exile and his stay at Athens.