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A Note on the Dating of the Social War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2009

Scott Peake
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The chronology of the Social War has for a long time been a source of dispute amongst historians of fourth-century Athens. The central problem has been the confusion that Diodoros, our main source for the period, got himself into. In the first of his two references to the Social War Diodoros refers to the outbreak of a ‘three-year war’ in the archonship of Cephisodotos (358/357). However, later on he refers to the closure of the war in the archonship of Elpines (356/355) after a ‘four-year war.’

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Greece & Rome , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , October 1997 , pp. 161 - 164
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1997

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References

1. The so-called war that occurred between the Athenians (with their allies) and certain members of the Second Athenian Confederacy who seceded in the early 350's B.C.

2. Diod. 16.7.3; 16.22.2.

3. Dion. Hal. Lys. 12.p.480. For those who support Dionysios' dating see, for example, Beloch, K. J., Griechische Geschichte2, 8 vols. (2nd ed.Strasburg, Berlin and Leipzig 1912–1913) iii. 260–62 andGoogle Scholar, more recently, Sealey, R., Demosthenes and his Time (Oxford, 1993), 103–6Google Scholar. Contra see Schweigert, E., ‘Greek Inscriptions’, Hesperia (1939), 14Google Scholar and Lewis, D. M., ‘Notes on Attic Inscriptions’, ABSA 49 (1954), 44Google Scholar.

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5. Dem. 23.171–3.

6. Ibid. 173.

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13. Diod. 16.22.2. For a full discussion of Chares and his role after the battle of Chios see Peake, S., The Role of the Generals in Athens in the Fourth Century B.C. (Ph.D. thesis St. Andrews 1991), 123–6Google Scholar.

14. Second Marathon: Schol. to Dem 4.19.; 3.39. Recall: FGrH 105F4; Diod. 16.22.2.