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Note on the Walls on Epipolae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

H. Awdry
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In reading again the narrative of the Sicilian Expedition lately heretical ideas have occurred to me as to the puzzling question of the walls on Epipolae, which I have thought it might be worth while with apologies to throw out for criticism. To show these pictorially, Professor Bury's Plan and my own perhaps crude views are here set side by side. In these latter there are many details of position upon which no stress is laid, the general idea only being indicated. I am not going to touch upon any alteration of text, but to deal solely with Thucydides as we have him, and with Thucydides only.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , 1909 , pp. 70 - 78
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1909

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1 A τєῖχος διπλοῦν might have two varieties (a) two walls with battlements, etc., on their outer sides, near together, and roofed from wall to wall with a covered space below, like the Lacedaemonian wall in the siege of Plataea; (b) two walls further apart and enclosing a fair amount of ground like the Long Walls, or the Athenian walls on Epipolae and in the marsh near the Great Harbour. A τєῖχος ἀπλοῦν would have no second wall and only parapets towards the enemy.