• DOI:10.2307/1087358
• Corpus ID: 161956367

Two Notes on Lysander.

@article{Andrewes1971TwoNO,
  title={Two Notes on Lysander.},
  author={Antony Andrewes},
  journal={Phoenix},
  year={1971},
  volume={25},
  pages={206}
}

• A. Andrewes
• Published 23 January 1971
• History
• Phoenix

CONSIDERING THE EVIDENT importance of Lysander's organisation of a Spartan empire, we are curiously ill-informed about the detail. We are uncertain about his mere physical movements in almost every month of the crucial period between Aigospotamoi and Pausanias' settlement at Athens. Though there are general statements in plenty, we can name only one city in which a decarchy was certainly set up, Samos (Xen. Hell. 2.3.7; cf. Parke 52). Question has also been raised about the duration of the decarchies, whether they were abolished at the end of 403 (see, e.g., Beloch 32.1.16) or in 402 (Parke 53-54), or continued down to 397, as R. E. Smith has maintained (CP 43 [1948] 150-153), reviving an old heresy.2 The case for 397 rests on Xenophon. The basic text, the only one to mention the abolition of the decarchies, is Hell. 3.4.2, Lysander's plan to restore them in 396: Kal avros avvcvEXOE'iv alvrT (sc. 'A-yraLXaceKapXtas rlas KaTaaraOelaas v7r' CKELiOV C rats 7roXeatv, 'K,reTrrWKvUas