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Thrasyboulos’ Thracian Support

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

David F. Middleton
David F. Middleton
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There has never been any doubt that an important part of Thrasyboulos’ forces in his campaign at Phyle and in the Peiraieus was non-Athenian. Lysias in his funeral oration, 2. 66 ff., gives fulsome praise to the xenoi who fought and died for the return of the democracy. Other honours paid to the living are recorded by Aeschines, 3. 187 f., and in the inscription I.G. II. 10, a decree followed by a list of names grouped by Athenian tribes, some of which are certainly non-Athenian. However, little has been said about who these people were, or why they chose to help the return.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , December 1982 , pp. 298 - 303
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1982

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