Andocides On the Peace with Sparta 3

ed. Kenneth John Maidment

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On the Peace with Sparta. Andocides. ed. Kenneth John Maidment. London. 1941.

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On the Peace with Sparta (English) (Andocides. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 1. Maidment, Kenneth John, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941 (1960 printing).)

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Περὶ τῆς πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους εἰρήνης Perseus (Andocides. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 1. Maidment, Kenneth John, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941 (1960 printing).) — 3 focus

Notes on the current edition

On the Peace with Sparta

1. 3-12 of this speech were inserted by Aeschines, with slight alterations, in his De Falsa Legatione( Aeschin. 2.172-176 ), an interesting example of the plagiarism which is known to have been common in ancient times. The De Falsa Legationewas delivered in 343, almost fifty years after this.
2. Andocides is confused in his history here. He is referring to the revolt of Euboea which occurred in 446 B.C. and which was followed by a thirty years’ peace with Sparta . He is also inaccurate in stating that Athens was still holding Megara ; Megara revolted at the same time as Euboea , and Athens was left only with the two ports of Pegae and Nisaea . The peace marked the end of her effort to acquire an empire on land. See Thuc. 1.112 .
3. A double historical error. (a) Andocides means Cimon, son of Miltiades. (b) Cimon had been dead three years when the thirty years’ peace was negotiated. A. is thinking of the truce of five years with Sparta arranged by Cimon in 451 immediately upon his return from exile. It was at the time of its expiry that the revolt of Euboea occurred. Cimon had been ostracized in 461 after his ignominious dismissal by the Spartans from Ithome . His exile marked the triumph of the advanced democrats headed by Ephialtes and Pericles.