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  • The Prosperity of Tyrants:Bacchylides, Herodotus, and the Contest for Legitimacy
  • Gregory Crane
Gregory Crane
Tufts University

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Footnotes

1. On the impact that Kroisos had upon the Greek imagination, see Evans 1978.34-35.

2. The translations of Pindar included here are based on those of Diane Svarlien which are included in Perseus 1.0.

3. Perhaps the clearest ancient analysis of the politics of generosity appears in the speech which Thucydides attributes to Alkibiades at 6.16; on the function of this ethic of generosity in Pindar, see Kurke 1991.163-94; on its function in the later, but better documented, fourth-century Athenian democracy, see Ober 1989.226-33.

4. Beazley 1955.

5. Segal 1971.40.

6. Maehler 1982.33, Xen. Cyr. 7.2, Ktesias FGrH 688 fr. 9, Nikolaos v. Damaskus FGrH 90 fr. 68, Diod. 9.2 and 9.34 (possibly from Ephoros).

7. See How and Wells 2.338-47, appendix 16, "Herodotus on Tyranny."

8. Kurke 1992.96.

9. Kurke 1992.94.

10. Kurke 1992.109.

11. I.e., olbos: Hdt. 1.32.9, 1.86.5; olbios: Hdt. 1.30.1, 1.30.2, 1.30.3, 1.30.4, 1.31.1, 1.32.5, 1.32.7 (twice), 1.34.1, 1.86.3, 1.86.5; anolbios ("not olbios"): 1.32.5, 1.32.6; anolbos ("lack of olbos"): 1.32.6; outside of these passages, forms of olbios show up at Hdt. 1.216.3, 6.24.2, 6.61.3, and 8.75.1.

12. Translation based on that of Diane Svarlien.

13. On the general functions of "ritualized friendships" in the classical period, see Herman 1987.

14. Lysias 6.48; on the places where Andocides went during his exile, see Macdowell 1962.4-5; on the aristocratic character of Andocides' boast, see Herman 1987.35.

15. Compare, for example, Elysion at Homer Od. 4.563-68, the nêsoi makarôn at Hes. WD 169-73, and the nêsos makarôn, at Pind. O. 2.70-74; on the land of the Hyperboreans in Pythian 10, see Köhnken 1971.168ff. and Burnett 1985.180 note 14; on the nêsoi makarôn, see West on WD 171.

16. On this, see...

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