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Inscriptions from Samos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Percy Gardner
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The chief fruit of Mr. Theodore Bent's recent visit to Samos is the discovery of an important agonistic inscription, which gives a list of victors in some games at Samos, probably the Heraea. The limits of date are given on the one hand by the mention of Apameia, founded by Seleucus Nicator, on the other hand by the absence of all Roman names. The forms of the letters with their squareness and strongly marked extremities seem to indicate the second century B.C.

The Heraea were celebrated at Samos from early times. Plutarch tells us that after the battle of Aegospotami the Samians renamed the festival after Lysander. But it soon resumed the older name. In one inscription of imperial times it is called in an inscription of the Antonine age the festival is termed The festival was doubtless a great Ionic πανηγυρίς, attended by all the pleasure-loving people of the coast and worthy of the language in which the Homeric hymn speaks of the Delian festival.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 7 , November 1886 , pp. 147 - 153
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1886

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page 148 note 1 No. 38, in the collection in Stamatiades' Samiaka.

page 148 note 2 ibid. No. 58.

page 148 note 3 ibid. No. 44 (1–3).

page 148 note 4 ibid. No. 44 (4).

page 148 note 5 Some of the most important lists published are C. I. G. 1584, 2214, 2758. The nearest parallels, however, to the present list are those recently found at the site of the Amphiaraeum at Oropus in Boeotia. See Ephem. Arch. 1884, p. 124.

page 150 note 1 viii. 98. Cf. Schoemann, Griech. Alterth., 3rd. edit. ii. 519.Google Scholar

page 152 note 1 Stephanus of Byzantium mentions Χήσιον as a village (πολίχνιον) of Ionia, and, according to some readings, Pliny includes Cheseopolis among the coast-towns of Ionia. On the other hand the Schol. to Callimachus' Hymn to Artemis (l. 228) states that Χήσιον was a promontory of Samos. The present inscription renders it probable that the town was in Samos itself.

page 153 note 1 xii. p. 539, a.