Some Dates in Early Spartan History

✍ Scribed by PARKER, VICTOR

• Book ID: 125425361
• Publisher: Akademie Verlag
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: German
• Weight: 707 KB
• Volume: 75
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0075-6334
• DOI: 10.1524/klio.1993.75.75.45

✦ Synopsis

Some Dates in Early Spartan History

The dates of the Messenian Wars (ca. 690-670 and ca. 635/625-610/600) help to provide Spartan history with a chronological background. They afford the kinglists precision; they allow a more precise overview of the growth of the Spartan state. In a previous paper I suggested a number of 'dates' which tended to favor a lower chronology of the Messinian Wars. 1 That chronology, I think, stands firmly on the basis of Tyrtaeus, Epaminondas, Rhianus, and the unknown author whose opinion Eusebius repeats. But I should like to discuss fully and to confirm suggestions made about the Great Rhetra, Amyclae, and the kinglists as well as to establish the dates of some other events. 1 V. Parker, The Dates of the Messenian Wars, Chiron 21, 1991, 25-47. 2 Aristotle, fr. 532, Rose = Schol. in Pindar. Isthm. VII 18; Pausanias, III 2.6; Pindar, Isthmian VII 12-15. Amyclae was in fact a Spartan obe: IG V 1.26. 3 Pausanias, III 16.9 4