Kleisthenes: Eponymous Archon 525/4 B. C.

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[h]i4 if he be wrong, those who have adopted Meritt's original view may feel that their historical case has been somewhat strengthened by a re-examination of the evidence and its implications. We are in no way convinced by what Alexander has written. In fact, his arguments are at times misleading, at times mistaken. We therefore essay a detailed refutation, for, if he has failed to impair what is today considered orthodox doctrine, that doctrine, right or wrong, remains as credible as before. We number for comment those passages of Alexander that seem to us most questionable.5 'Hesperia 8 (1939) 59-65. We adopt Meritt's numbering of the lines. *The most recent major study of the list of archons from 682/1 to 481/0 B.C. is by T. J. Cadoux, The Athenian Archons from Kreon to Hypsichides, 7HS 68 (1948) 70-123. Dionysios of Halikarnassos (7. 3. 1) places the archonship of Miltiades in the sixty-fourth Olympiad. Cadoux (110, n. 216) thinks it reasonable to interpret Dionysios as meaning Olympiad 64. 1 but concedes that Olympiad 64. 2 (523/2 B.c.) is a possible alternative; he shows that the date cannot be further lowered. If, however, Olympiad

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