Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Minor Corrections
Donald Kagan (1932-2021), The Fall of the Athenian Empire (1987; rpt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), p. 39:
Id., p. 55, n. 15:
There is no entry for Kagan, who was Sterling Professor of Classics at Yale, in the Database of Classical Scholars.
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On reflection, they decided instead to draw the ships up and shore and guard them with their soldiers until a chance of escape should occur.For "up and" read "up on".
Id., p. 55, n. 15:
Thucydides seems to date the beginning of the suspicion against Alcibiades after the death of Chalcideus (8.24.1) and the battle of Miletus (8.25-26): Ἀλκιβιάδης μετὰ τὸν Χαλκιδέως καὶ τὴν ἐν Μιλήτῳ μάχην τοῖς Πελοποννησίοις ὕποπτος ὤν, καὶ ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν ἀφικομένης ἐπιστολῆς πρὸς Ἀστύοχον ἐκ Λακεδαίμονος ὥστ᾽ ἀποκτεῖναι .... "After the death of Chalcideus and the battle at Miletus Alcibiades, being an object of suspicion to the Peloponnesians and a letter having come to Astyochus from Sparta as a result of this ordering him to be killed .... he withdrew to Tissaphernes" (8.45.1).The quotation from Thucydides is faulty—add θάνατον after Χαλκιδέως. Probably also add at least some of πρῶτον μὲν ὑποχωρεῖ δείσας παρὰ Τισσαφέρνην after the ellipsis.
There is no entry for Kagan, who was Sterling Professor of Classics at Yale, in the Database of Classical Scholars.
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