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Headword:
*qemistokle/ous
pai=des
Adler number: theta,126
Translated headword: Themistokles' sons, Themistocles' sons
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Neokles and Demopolis, having been contestants at the funeral games in
Athens, were victorious and were crowned unrecognized. And Neokles won the long course and Demopolis the stadion.[1] Their identities became known after the contest, and they ran the risk of being stoned to death by enemies of Themistokles, who reminded the Athenians of the laws regarding exiles.
*qemistokle/ous pai=des, *neoklh=s kai\ *dhmo/polis a)gwnisa/menoi to\n e)pita/fion a)gw=na e)n *)aqh/nais kai\ nikh/santes e)stefanw/qhsan a)gnoou/menoi. kai\ *neoklh=s me\n do/lixon e)ni/khse, *dhmo/polis de\ sta/dion. gnwrisqe/ntes de\ meta\ to\n a)gw=na kataleusqh=nai e)kindu/neusan u(po\ tw=n *qemistokle/ous e)xqrw=n, u(pomnhsa/ntwn tou\s *)aqhnai/ous tou\s no/mous tou\s peri\ tw=n fuga/dwn.
Notes:
C5 BC. (For Themistokles himself see
theta 124,
theta 125.)
Adler suggests
Aelian as the immediate source of this material. In any event it is manifest nonsense, as Neokles had died as a child (
Plutarch,
Themistocles 32.2) and "Demopolis" is a fabrication -- of the hellenistic historian Phylarchos (FGrH 81 F76).
Plutarch,
Themistocles 32.4 dismisses this with splendid sarcasm. See generally Davies (below) 217; Podlecki (below) 106-7; Frost (below) 234.
[1] For these events see
delta 807 (both),
delta 1339.
J.K. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families 600-300 BC (Oxford 1971)
A.J. Podlecki, The Life of Themistocles (Montreal & London 1975)
F.J. Frost, Plutarch's Themistocles: a historical commentary (Princeton 1980)
Keywords: athletics; biography; children; historiography; history; law
Translated by: Debra Hamel on 16 November 1998@16:26:19.
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