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Thucydides and ‘Chalkidic’ Torone (IV.110.1)
Author(s) -
Hornblower Simon
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0092.00033
Subject(s) - scholarship , meaning (existential) , common sense , sense of place , politics , epistemology , philosophy , history , sociology , political science , law , social science
This article is a reply to the Thucydidean part of J.K. Papadopoulos in OJA 15 (1996) 151–81 and is concerned with the meaning of ‘Chalkidic Torone’ at Thucydides IV.110.1 (and of ‘Chalkidic Olynthos’ at IV.123). Various meanings, canvassed in previous scholarship, are considered. Sense (1) is geographical, ‘Torone in Chalkidike’ sense (2) is political, ‘Torone the member of the Chalkidic State or League’. Both these are rejected in favour of some translation of ‘Chalkidic’ which implies either colonial descent from Euboian Chalkis (sense (3)) or ethnic affiliation to a local and non‐Euboian ‘Chalkidic genos’ (sense (4)). It is argued, contrary to Papadopoulos, that Thucydides in the fifth century, and perhaps Ephorus in the fourth, did after all think in terms of sense (3), but that non‐Euboian Chalkidians, if any, may have appropriated Euboian origins to themselves, partly for imperialistic reasons and partly to assert their hellenism, surrounded as they were by non‐Greek neighbours. (Analogies are suggested for such ‘propagandistic’ behaviour.) That is, senses (3) and (4) can be reconciled.