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Headword:
*)epi/skopos
Adler number: epsilon,2584
Translated headword: overseer
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Those sent by [the] Athenians into the subject cities to oversee their particular affairs used to be called 'overseers' and 'guards'; [sc. the men] whom the Laconians used to refer to as harmosts.
Greek Original:*)epi/skopos: oi( par' *)aqhnai/wn ei)s ta\s e)phko/ous po/leis e)piske/yasqai ta\ par' e(ka/stois pempo/menoi e)pi/skopoi kai\ fu/lakes e)kalou=nto: ou(\s oi( *la/kwnes a(rmosta\s e)/legon.
Notes:
An abridgement of Harpokration s.v., which cites two lost speeches of Antiphon (frs. 24 and 31 Sauppe) for the word
episkopos and quotes
Theophrastus (fr. 633 Fortenbaugh) on the
Athens/
Sparta contrast. In
Theophrastus' opinion it was the Spartans who chose the better name. (For Spartan harmosts see
alpha 3979.)
cf. generally
epsilon 2585.
J.M. Balcer, "Imperial magistrates in the Athenian Empire", Historia 25 (1976) 257-87
J.M. Balcer, "The Athenian Episkopos and the Achaemenid Kings Eye", American Journal of Philology 98 (1977) 252-63
Keywords: definition; history; military affairs; politics
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 17 December 2000@05:28:45.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added note, bibliography, keywords) on 17 December 2000@06:47:53.
David Whitehead (another x-ref; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status) on 7 July 2011@10:17:59.
David Whitehead (tweak) on 18 October 2012@05:36:25.
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