Euphemus (archon)
Euphemus(Greek:Εύφημος) wasarchonof Athens in 417/416 BC.[1]InThucydides,he is given a speech which portrays Athens as a tyrannical city.[2]
Archonship
[edit]Euphemus gives his name to the year of his archonship in 417/416 BC.[1]During his archonship, the Argive alliance with Athens is renewed and the Melian expedition is undertaken.[3]
Thucydides
[edit]His speech rendered in Thucydides, Book 6 (72-88.2), as Athenian ambassador toCamarinagives reply to Hermocrates the Syracusan: "Euphemus responds in terms that characterize all Athenian political strategy as an assessment of imperial expediency."[4]: 290 Athens has become a tyrant.[2]
Notes and references
[edit]- ^abBenjamin D. Meritt, "The Spartan Gymnopaidia",Classical Philology,Vol 26, No 1, (January 1931), pp 70-84,JSTOR264683accessed 23 November 2011.
- ^abP. J. Rhodes, "Democracy and Empire" in Loren J. Samons II (ed),The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles,Cambridge University Press, 2007, Cambridge Collections Online accessed 24 November 2011doi:10.1017/CCOL9780521807937.002
- ^Jacob Geerlings, "The Athenian Calendar and the Argive Alliance",Classical Philology,Vol 24, No 3 (July 1929), pp 239-244JSTOR262846accessed 23 November 2011.
- ^Thomas F. Scanlon, "Thucydides and Tyranny",Classical Antiquity,Vol 6, No 2 (Oct, 1987), pp 286-301,JSTOR25010872accessed 23 November 2011
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