That the family was in a tech- nical sense "noble" seems to be shown by the fact that Themistocles claimed member- ship in the genos, or clan, of the Lykomidai, which had its main locus in the deme of Phlya to the northeast of Athens. [...] Scion of one of the old families, a former archon, and now a success- ful imperialist who had added the islands of Lemnos and Imbros to the Athenian sphere of influence, Miltiades put himself forward as the natural leader of the resis- tance to the invasion which could not long be delayed now that Darius' armies were overrunning the Greek cities in Ionia and the Hellespont. [...] When his plan, to extort money from the island of Paros on the pretext of the Parians' collaboration with Darius, failed miserably, he returned home and was made to stand trial on charges of having "deceived the people." (He had in fact promised to enrich the state treasury.) The defence successfully resisted a demand for the death penalty and had it reduced instead to a fine of fifty talents, whi [...] The extremes of scepticism and credulity archons if A. Rosenberg is right in suggesting in the matter of Themistocles' part in the re- that as part of the reform the presidency of the form are represented by Badian, Antichthon 5 Boule was transferred from the archon to a (1971), 1-34, and C. Hignett, A History of the daily rotating epistates ton prytanon ("Die Par- Athenian Constitution, 187-89. [...] Both men probably joined Themistocles on the board of generals elected in the spring of 480, which shows that, in spite of the fact that the status of the exiles appears to be left unresolved by the closing, mutilated clauses of the Troizen inscription, they were almost certainly recalled early in the archon year, perhaps as early as the autumn of 481.16 The next step was to mobilize resistance am
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title 3
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 7
- Illustrations 8
- Abbreviations 9
- Preface 11
- PART I The Life of Themistocles 13
- PART II The Literary and Archaeological Evidence 58
- 1 The Earliest Literary Evidence 59
- 2 Herodotus and Thucydides 78
- 3 The Philosophical and Rhetorical Schools 87
- 4 Fourth-Century Historians 98
- 5 Late Accounts 112
- 6 Plutarch 144
- 7 The Ostia Portrait 152
- 8 The "Themistocles Decree" from Troizen 156
- 9 Coins 177
- 10 Buildings and Walls 181
- 11 Ostraka 200
- Appendix A: Chronology 210
- Appendix B: The Naval Bill 215
- Appendix C: Themistocles' Family 219
- Bibliography 222
- Indexes 238
