Volume 1

Herodotus : the fourth, fifth, and sixth books / With introduction, notes, appendices, indices, maps by Reginald Walter Macan.

  • Herodotus
Date:
1895
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    AvBm iv yvcofiy yeyov(o<f‘ irvOofievo^ wv 6 Kpotcro? ravra, ireiMTrcov 5 Trpo'ijyopeve tolcl Kap>y\raKr}vo'i(7L pLerLevab MtArtaSea' el Be p,r) (jc^ea? TTLTVO^ rpoTTOV uTreiXee eKrpl^jreLv. nfKavwpbevajv Se twv Xapb’^aKrjvaiV ev rolai Xo’yoLcn to deXet to eVo? elvab to a<^i aTreiXTjae 6 K.poicro<;, 7rtTV0<i Tpoirov eKTpL-yjreiv, pboyif; kotc piaOcbv TMV Ti? irpealSvTepcov eiTre to eov, otl ttItv^ piovvr} nravTcov lo BevBpecov eKKOTvelcra fSXaaTov ovBeva pueTLel aXXa TravtoXeOpo<; e^airoXXvTat. Bet(TavTe^ wv oi AapL’yjrafcrjvol Kpot(xoi/ XvaavTe<i pbeT?)Kav MtXriaSea. ovto<; puev Brj Bia K^polaov eKcj^evjeL, pbeTa 38 Be TeXevTa airai^, t^v ap'^rjv re KaX Ta '^pojp.aTa 'jrapaBov<i ^TTfo-ayopj] tS KtyLtcoi^o? dBeX(f)eov TraiBl ofiopirjTpLov. Kai ol TeXevT^aavTi ^epaovyaLTaL Ovovcn to? vopuo^ olklo-tt}, KaX dyoiva 7. iri-ruos Tpdirov. The old name of Lampsakos 'was Pityoessa, changed by the rhokaian colonists to Lampsakos in honour of Lampsake, daughter of the king Mandron, who had saved them from her father’s treachery. After her death she was worshipped as a deity (ws dieiv), see Plutarch, de virt. mul. p. 255, who found the story in Charon of Lamp- sakos (Muller, Frag. Hist. Gr. i. p. 33). No adult Lampsakene could have been at a loss for an explanation of the bitter jest of Kroisos: nor could Hdt. had he read—or remembered—the passage in Charon. With the phraseology of this passage cp. 5. 80. 38. 2. dirais, ‘without leaving male issue,’ cp. 5. 48. If Miltiades son of Kypselos had a daughter, she would have been iirlKXijpoi, and might have been married to Stesagoras son of Kimon, the half-brother of Miltiades. There is, however, no mention of an iirlKXTfpos in the case. This Stesagoras also dies dirait, and is succeeded by his full brother Miltiades, named presumably after the Philaid, son of Kypselos. The question, however, arises whether Stesagoras (c. 34 supra) the stepfather of Miltiades, son of Kypselos, was not himself a Philaid ? (cp. Petersen, Hist, gent. Attic, p. 25, Toepffer, Attische Genealogic, p. 280). In that case the tie ^tween Stesagoras Kimonis and Miltiades Kypseli would have been amatic and not merely matriarchal. Tne Kiinoiiidae, so to speak, are after- wards recognised as Philaidae, which could hardly have been done simply under the arrangement described in the text, without strict descent or adoption. Adoption there may have been in any case. But it is difiScult to suppose that the Philaid Miltiades had no agnates : it was perhaps, however, remembered as remarkable that his nearest agnate w'as also his brother uterine though not paternal. In short, Stesagoras, father of Kimon, and Kypselos, father of Milti- ades, may have been full brothers, and the second marriage of N or M the mother of Miltiades Kypseli and of Kimon Stesagoras may have been a case of the Levirate, Kypselos and Stesagoras being themselves full brothers, though this fact is glossed over in the tradition of a later time under the influence of later law. In any case the stress laid upon the uterine tie is noticeable. Ideas and customs connected with the matri- archate died very hard at Athens ; cp. c. 131 infra, and M'Lennan’s Kinship in Ancient Greece, which makes no use of this case {Studies in Anc. Hist. 1886, pp. 195 tf.). T^|v apx'qv T€ Kal TO, xp'<i|AaTa may be taken as both limited to the Cher- sonese. 4. Xcpo-ovqo-iTai Ovovcri. The present tense might merely be in continuation of iK<f>eijy€L' TeXei»T$, yet it is probable that worship was still paid to the great oikist of the Chersonese at the date of Hdt.’s writing. It was presumably the Attic element which mainly supported the cult, revived, if not established, in the days of the Kimonian victories. Cp. Introduction, p. Ixiv. ws vcipos olKWTTfj. An instance of that Hero-worship which was the quint- essence of Hellenic religion. Cp. 6. 47, 114, and for the oikist. Time. 5. 11.