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The Campaigns in Amphilochia during the Archidamian War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

N. G. L. Hammond
Affiliation:
Clare College, Cambridge

Extract

In an article entitled ‘A contribution to the Topography of northwestern Greece’ Professor J. L. Myres and Canon C. M. Church published the papers of General Sir R. Church and the sketch-maps of his aide-decamp, Colonel Jochmus, which related to the 1828–9 campaigns in the Greco-Turkish War. In elucidating these campaigns they were able to define the salient features of an area, in which no topographer had travelled since Colonel Leake in 1809; and they laid the basis for a further study of Demosthenes' campaigns in Amphilochia in 426 B.C. During my travels in Amphilochia I was much indebted to the work of Professor Myres and Canon Church; it is therefore an honour and a pleasure to publish my results in a volume dedicated to Professor Myres.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1937

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References

page 128 note 1 Geographical Journal XXXII (1908).

page 130 note 1 The sketch-map in Leake, Travels in N.G. iv p. 242, is rough and inaccurate, and has been reproduced in Henderson, , The Great War between Athens and Sparta (1927) p. 154.Google Scholar The map in Oberhummer, Akarnanien, etc. (1887) and the Austrian staff-map (1914) are unreliable, especially in the positioning of the Argive plain and of the ruins of Argos; the Greek staff-map, of which three of the four requisite sheets have appeared, is the best map available, but the contours appear to me unreliable.

page 131 note 1 Church, C. M. and Myres, J. L., Geographical Journal XXXII (1908) pp. 47 f.CrossRefGoogle Scholar with Plan facing p. 52; the Plan is not accurate in detail.

page 132 note 1 Thuc. II 68.

page 132 note 2 Thuc. II 80 f.

page 132 note 3 The strong fortifications there date to the fourth century B.C. or later.

page 133 note 1 Thuc. III 105, 1; the Argeia was probably bounded on the north by the foothills of Makrinóros, which would belong to the territory Amphilochike.

page 133 note 2 So Leake, , Travels in N.G. IV p. 251Google Scholar; Heuzey, Olympe et l'Acarnanie p. 300, in placing Olpae high on the Makrinóros ridge, exceeds the 25 stades given by Thucydides.

page 133 note 3 Thuc. III 102, 6–7.

page 133 note 4 It is impossible to say whether Lake Katafórno existed in the fifth century B.C.; it may have done, for the Ambraciotes at Olpae later found themselves cut off from the north.

page 134 note 1 Leake, op. cit., p. 251, identifies Mt. Thyamus with the ridge which culminates to the north at Paleo-avlí. But, as the Argeia marches with the territory of Limnaea (Thuc. II 80, 8), the northern part of this ridge cannot have been part of Agraïs; it is more likely that Eurylochus, to escape observation, made a wide détour towards the ridge of Seriakísi, whence he could descend unobserved by the upper Botoko vallev into the Argeia.

page 134 note 2 Thuc. III 107, 3

page 135 note 1 Thuc. III 107, 3 repeated by Polyaenus III 1, 2, with the number of troops given as 300.

page 135 note 2 Oberhummer, op. cit. p. 108 and n. 2 places the scene of the battle on the Botoko river South of Argos, and finds the path apparently in the stream-bed; this seems to me impossible. Heuzey, p. 301, is correct in saying that the plain between Argos and Agrilovúni contains no such or but in placing the scene of the battle as far up the stream as Loutró village he deprives Eurylochus of that access to the plain which was required for the best use of his hoplites. Cf. the objections advanced by Bursian, in Rhein. Mus. XVI (1861) p. 429.Google Scholar

page 135 note 3 There are to-day two paths at this point, leading from Loutró to Kríkelo and to Argos, and one could find on either of them such places as Thucydides describes; but his description is intended not to identify the path but to explain its value for laying an ambush.

page 136 note 1 Thuc. III 111, 1

page 136 note 2 This point is repeated in the final mention of Olpe Thuc. III 113, 1 Agraïs, as we have seen above, marches with the territories of Argos and Limnaea; it therefore comprised the southern end of the Seriakisi ridge, which we have identified with Mt. Thyamus.

page 137 note 1 Thuc. III 112, 1 the singular form of the name predominates in Thucydides, the plural form occurring at 113, 3.

page 137 note 2 The village name ‘Langáda’ means ‘Pass’; it controls the approach from the north to the plateau of Tsanohóri, and its name affords further evidence in support of our identification.

page 139 note 1 Thuc. III 110, 1.

page 139 note 2 In the heat of summer caravans of pack-horses prefer to travel by night.

page 139 note 3 F. W. Ullrich, Der Kampf um Amphilochien (1863).

page 139 note 4 So Leake, op. cit. IV, p. 250.Google Scholar He had not visited Mt. Makrinóros, which he only saw from the sea (cf. p. 236), nor had he seen the two fortresses he mentions as situated on the mountain; in fact there is no such fortress at the southern end of the ridge. He also talks of a ‘pass’ between Mt. Makrinóros and the sea, but this does not fit the narrative and is not, I think, the meaning of the word I shall publish elsewhere details of the ancient sites in Amphilochia.

page 140 note 1 Thuc. III 113, 3.