The Aristoteles Decree and the Expansion of the Second Athenian League

by Christopher A. Baron

Hesperia, Volume 75, Issue 3
Page(s): 379-395
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25067993
Year: 2006
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ABSTRACT:

The left lateral face of the Aristoteles Decree stele (IG II2 43), the most important epigraphic source for the Second Athenian League, presents numerous problems of interpretation. The author attempts here to establish the order in which members of the League were listed on that face and to link them with campaigns described in the literary sources, offering a possible restoration for the name inscribed in line 111 and later erased. A contemporary inscription from Athens points to the Parians, who were also listed on the front of the stone. Thus, the erasure was intended to correct a mistake of repetition.