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The Karians' Place In Diodoros' Thalassocracy List1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

R. Ball
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In the much discussed list of thalassocrats excerpted by Eusebios from Diodorosthe tenth entry remains the most puzzling.2 Although the name is missing inEusebios' Chronographia (and in the derivative Synkellos), both the Armenianversion of the Canons and Jerome's Latin Canons give this place to the Karians, and the Armenian Canons are generally followed for the period of rule of sixtyoneyears:3 ‘Zehntens führten die Seeherrschaft die Karier, 61 Jahre.’ The years apparently covered by this Karian thalassocracy are c. 735–674 B.C.4.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , December 1977 , pp. 317 - 322
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1977

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2 See the recent treatment by Forrest, W.G., ‘The tenth thalassocracy in Eusebios’, CQ N.S. 19 (1969), 95–106.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Karst, J., Eusebius, die Chronik aus dem Armenischen (Gr. Chr. Schr. 20), pp. 106–7, 182Google Scholar; Helm, R., Die Chronik des Hieronymus (Gr. Chr. Schr. 47), p. 90bGoogle Scholar; Myres, J.L., JHS 26 (1906), 107, 109CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Fotheringham, J.K., JHS 27 (1907), 82–3CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Helm, R., Hermes, 61 (1926), 252, 258Google Scholar. Two divergent opinions are to be found in Bork, F., Klio, 28 (1935), 16–20CrossRefGoogle Scholar, who tried to reduce the Karians' sea-rule to only two years c. 587–585, and Miller, M., The Thalassocracies (New York, 1971), pp. 63 ff.,Google Scholar where the ‘thalassocracy-list of EusebiusJerome’ includes a Karian thalassocracy of fifty-one years, although that ascribed by her to Diodoros and Kastor has sixty-one years. In the table in Forrest, loc. cit. 105, for ‘71’ read ‘61’ years.

4 The period of rule is put at 737—676 by Helm in his article and 730—669 by Fotheringham. The dates I give are those of Fotheringham raised by five years which is a necessary procedure to have the list end with Xerxes' invasion correctly in 480 B.C. on his presuppositions. In any case the differences between the two reconstructions of Helm and Fotheringham are slight enough. Evenif one reduces these dates on the supposition that some lengthening has occurred and a genuine tradition may be involved, we still have to keep this period of sixty-one years in the seventh century.

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21 There are only brief remarks in A. Kleingünther, Phil. Suppl. 26 (1933), 145, and hardly any discussion elsewhere. For the Karians under the Athenian Empire, see A TL i.446, 498 and Meiggs, R., The Athenian Empire (1972), pp. 118 and 306–7.Google Scholar

22 Hdt. 1.171; Thuc. 1.4, 8.1; lsoc. Panath. 43; Konon, (FGrHist 26) F 1 (XLVII) 4–5; Strabo 14.2.27 (661); Paus. 7.2.3 etc. Both Herodotos and Konon imply that a Karian thalassocracy lasted after the Trojan War.Google Scholar

23 Diod. 5.84. This final section in Book Five sums up the ways in which the Karians took over the rule of the sea from the Cretans. See also Diod. 5.51, 53, 54, 60.

24 Hdt. 1.171.5. In Konon's account the Dorians under Althaimenes drove the Karians from Rhodes at the time of the Ionian Migration.

25 Diod. 5.55–9 comes from Zenon of Rhodes, (FGrHist 523 F 1) and 5.64–80 from various Cretan authors (FGrHist 468 F 1), but all the references to Karian thalassocracy fall outside these sections. They may be drawn from some unnamed Cretan source, since there is a close relation to Minos' thalassocracy, or from some other background narrative source, perhaps even Ephoros, since he did include some account of the migrations (FGrHist 70 F 125–7).Google Scholar

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27 The only known author of a thalassocracy list is Kastor of Rhodes, (FGrHist 252 T 1) and it is not impossible that he was Diodoros' source; but equally well he could have had some unknown predecessors.Google Scholar

28 Karst, , op. cit., pp. 106–7. There is no indication that the manuscripts show anything different and I have not checked them on this point.Google Scholar

29 It has been pointed out to me that prose manuscripts including those of historical authors were in any case often written in fairly narrow columns (c. 15–25 letters wide): Turner, E.G., Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World (Oxford, 1971), p. 8 with no. 55 (c. 50 B.C.) and e.g. Sosylos, Hannibal iv preserved on a papyrus of c. 100 B.C. and given as no. 10 in Bilabel, Die kleineren His torikerfragmente auf Papyrus (= FGrHist 176 F 1). I am not sure if this strengthens the likelihood of a list such as we are dealing with here being spread over two columns rather than being run on down a single column. It certainly might have been done to mark a differentiation in the subject-matter. There is an interesting case of variation in form dictated by content in a rather different literary genre in P. Oxy. 3010 (narrative about lolaus) where twenty lines of a speech in verse are preceded and followed by two narrow prose columns of narrative. I also think that chronographic writing (or historical writing with a strong chronographic content) was expressed in a variable style including the us, of parallel lists and this would perhaps encourage a layout of the Thalassocracy List in Diodoros such as I have suggested.Google Scholar

30 Karst, , op. cit., p. 191Google Scholar and p. XLVI where the corruption is explained as arising through the Syriac transcription. On my supposition the error would have occurred at some stage while the two-column arrangement of the list was still preserved in the Chronographia, whether in the Greek or Syrian antecedents of our Armenian manuscripts.

31 I It would be comforting to find further traces of this conjectured form of the list in the omissions and errors in the entries in the Armenian and Latin Canons, but it is difficult to find anything very suggestive of something more than a general carelessness or corruption. We do find that the sixth and the fifteenth entries, which are on the same level in the two-column version of the list given above, that is the Cypriots and Naxians, are missing in the Armenian Canons, but the Naxians are also missing from Jerome's Canons while the Cypriots are not.

32 Hdt. 1.7; 7.74; Apollodoros (FGrHist 244) F 170–1; Diod. 4.31; Strabo 13.1.8, 3.2, 4.5; 14.5.23, 24, 27; scholiasts on Iliad 3.401, 10.431, 17.291; and RE XIV.1, 582–3.Google Scholar

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