Andocides On the Peace with Sparta 5

ed. Kenneth John Maidment

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

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Current edition Perseus

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).)

Editions (1)
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).) — 5 focus

Notes on the current edition

On the Peace with Sparta

1. Again an error. Peiraeus was fortified by Themistocles immediately after the repulse of the Persians in 480.
2. The northern Long Wall, connecting Athens with Peiraeus, was in fact built in 457, over ten years before the negotiation of the peace which Andocides is discussing. Nothing is said of the wall to the south, running between Athens and Phalerum, which was constructed at the same time.
3. An obvious inaccuracy. The Athenian fleet had been growing steadily since the Persian Wars and the institution of the Delian League.
4. Cavalry had been in existence since at least the seventh century. Solon, at the beginning of the sixth, formed his second property class of Ἱππεῖς, citizens wealthy enough to provide themselves with a horse in time of war. Archers ( τοξόται) were imported for the first time shortly after Salamis (480 B.C.)