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Hipponicus‘ Trapeza: humour in Andocides 1.130–1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Cheryl Anne Cox
Cheryl Anne Cox
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The University of Memphis
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Extract

Andocides is generally not considered one of the best orators. To point up his flawed style, scholars have discussed a notoriously vindictive and humorous section in Andocides 1: in 124ff. Andocides describes the profligate lifestyle of his prosecutor, Callias III the Ceryx, the son of Hipponicus II and dadouchos of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , December 1996 , pp. 572 - 575
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1996

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References

1 See, for example Dobson, J. F., The Greek Orators (Freeport, NY, 1969, 2nd ed), p.67;Jebb, R.C., The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus (New York, 1962), 1.106, where Jebb feels that this anecdote diverges from Andocides′ argument, and 127 where Jebb states that sections 97ff. are ‘a confused appendix’. For Callias Ill's ancestry:Davies, J. K., Athenian Propertied Families 600–300 B.C., (Oxford, 1971, henceforth APF), pp.254ff.Google Scholar

2 The fullest discussion of these events and of Andocides 1 is still MacDowell, D. M., Andokides on the Mysteries (Oxford, 1990), and esp. pp.1–18.Google Scholar

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8 For example, Dem. 19.198; overturning a boat: Aeschin. 3.158; a couch: Athen. 13.584f

9 Davies, APF, pp. 254ff.

10 For which see MacDowell, Andokides, pp. 14–15.

11 Dow, S.and Gill, D., ‘The Greek Cult Table’, AJA 69 (1965), 103–114CrossRefGoogle Scholar and esp. 109;Gill D., ‘Trapezomata: A Neglected Aspect of Greek Sacrifice’, HThR 67 (1974), 118ff. gives archaeological and inscriptional evidence for the use of cult tables; see also his Greek Cult Tables (New York and London, 1991, henceforth GCT).

12 Gill, GCT, pp. 23ff.

13 For the shares of food to priests: Gill, ‘Trapezomata’, 127–33; Gill, GCT, pp. 15ff.;for the wealth of this branch of the Ceryces: Davies, APF, p. 260.

14 Gill, ‘Trapezomata’, 122; id., GCT, p. 10.

15 For example Hdt. 1.162; X. An. 7.3.22; Gill, ‘Trapezomata’, 121;id., GCT, p. 10.

16 Eitrem, S., ‘Miscellanea’, CR 35 (1921), 20–21. Eitrem conjectures that this rite mimics the myth of Zeus′ overturning the inhospitable table of the Arcadian Lycaon and then setting Lycaon's house on fire.Google Scholar

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