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Onomakles and the Alopekonnesians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

G. L. Huxley
Affiliation:
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Extract

Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 3711 discusses Lesbian antiquities. In column ii lines 31 to 36 a quotation from Alkaios is followed by remarks upon Alopekonnesians who settled at Ainos. The passage quoted from Alkaios is already known (130 L.-P. 130 b 9–11 Voigt [P. Oxy. 2165, fr. 1 ii 17–19’), but the new evidence in the lemma has enabled the editor, M. W.

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1987

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2 Excavations were conducted during the Gallipoli campaign and again in the period from August 1920 to January 1921: BCH xxxix (1915) 135240Google Scholar; CRAI (1915) 268–9; (1916) 40–7; (1921) 130–6.Boardman, J., The Greeks overseas (London 1980) 265Google Scholar.

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8 Ephoros FGrH 70 F 39. Apollodoros 244 F 184 (Steph. Byz. s.v. ‘Αῖνος’, p. 52, 9–10 Meineke). Topography of Ainos: Hasluck, F. W., BSA xv (1908/1909) 249–57Google Scholar. May, J. M. F., Ainos. Its history and coinage (Oxford 1950) 17Google Scholar.

9 In P. Oxy. 3711 ii 36 who are the Thracians and what are they doing? Near Alopekonnesos in the Chersonese they would be Dolonkoi (Herodotos vi. 34.1–2). At Poltymbria-Ainos they would be Apsinthioi: Ἄψινθος was another name of Ainos (Steph. Byz. p. 52.1 Meineke). Apsinthians were warlike (Herodotos loc. cit.) and engaged in human sacrifice (Herodotos ix. 119.1); so the settlers at Ainos are likely to have been attacked. Compare the Klazomenians whom Thracians drove from Abdera (Herodotos i. 168).