ÏG" II 2 . 1609 and the Transformation of the Second Athenian Sea-League

Abstract

THIS INSCRIPTION is part of a naval record from the 'seventies or 'sixties of the fourth century. Its year is difficult to determine. The object of this paper is to review the considerations relevant to the date and, in this connection, to observe the transformation which the Second Athenian Sea-League underwent in the late 'seventies.' In lines 88-111 the inscription records the despatch of a cleruchy: eleven triremes sailed on the expedition and normally, as in the other parts of the list, each ship had two trierarchs but a few ships had only one trierarch each. Three pairs of trierarchs also appear as trierarchs of three other ships recorded earlier in the inscription (lines 54, 62-63, 83); and one syntrierarch appears similarly with another colleague as trierarch of another ship (line 49). Presumably, when the decision was taken to despatch the cleruchy, there was a call for volunteers, and some men who had already acquitted their obligation for the year now equipped further ships. When two men shared a trierarchy, it was customary for one of them to sail alone, while the other simply made a financial payment; so it was possible for the latter to furnish another ship in the same year. A cleruchy was sent to Samos in 365/4.2 It is the earliest known cleruchy from the period of the Second Athenian Sea-League and therefore the student is tempted to regard 365/4 as the year of the naval list IG II2. 1609. Dr. E. Schweigert3 has tried to confirm this dating. He draws attention to a list of cleruchs, IG II2. 1952; this mentions (line 5) [-] os, son of Callias of the deme Euonymes and (line 11) [-] as, son of Philinos of the deme Lamptres. In 346/5 Aeschines (1.53) said that Anticles, son of Callias of the deme Euonymes, was in Samos with the cleruchs; Schweigert infers that the list, IG II2. 1952, concerns a cleruchy sent to Samos. Further, Philinos of Lamptres was one of the trierarchs recorded in IG II2. 1609 (line 91) as conducting a cleruchy; Schweigert infers that the cleruchy of IG II2. 1609 was that sent to Samos in 365/4.