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SUGGENEIS PRUTANEVN > PRYTANEIS RELATIVES

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Elias Kapetanopoulos,

Professor Dr. (Greece-Rome)

Department of History

Central Connecticut State University

New Britain, CT 06050-4010 (USA)

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E-mail: Kapetanopoulos@.ccsu.edu

Web site: http://www.history.ccsu.edu/elias/elias.htm

Areas of Research: Attic epigraphy-Athenian institutions of the Roman period (200 B.C.-3rd c. A.D.), and early Makedon(ia)/Makedones.

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CENTER FOR ATHENIAN-MAKEDONIAN STUDIES:

PANAYHNAIS IA' - PANATHENAIS XI

11 September 2000 = 4 Dekembr€ou 2007 > 4 December 2007

This study is under preparation, and it has been awarded a Sabbatical (Fall 2001) and a Connecticut State University Research Grant [2002-2003].

RELATIVES AMONG THE ATHENIAN PRYTANEIS OF A.D.100-256

The present study traces by name every relative in the prytany (councillor) rosters of [A.D.] 100-256 and evaluates the appearance of relatives in clusters (of more than 2) in the rosters concerned, noting at the same time the method(s) of inscribing the names.

The investigation shows that the commonest relatives that appear in clusters (of more than 2) are brothers and fathers and sons. The brothers, fathers and sons, as indicated below, are invariably listed together, but there also instances of deviation from this rule. However, at times these latter instances may not be related. In the majority of instances brothers, fathers and sons appear in pairs, but there are examples of three brothers listed together and fathers with more than one son. A unique document in this instance is Agora XV (1974), No. 406 of the tribe Aigeis which contains four cases of "triplet brothers" (below) and dates from 171/2.

As the FATHER-SON instances have been classified, in 84.1% they are listed together, while in 15.9% they are apart (in two instances separated by a Roman citizen [civis]). In the category BROTHER-BROTHER the listings together amount to 86.1%, while separate examples make up the remaining 13.9%. With the addition of the 10 cases of "triplet brothers", the percentage distribution is 85.4% and 14.6 respectively.

At any rate, the evidence on relatives among the Athenian prytaneis (councillors) is presented in full by categories, with a commentary where appropriate.

I. FATHER-SON (sixty-nine examples):

[Tribe] of Erechtheis (listed by deme [town])

108/9: [Agora XV (1974),] No. 312,

Lines 12: DiÒdvrow pr.

13: DiÒdvrow (Diod≈rou) ([K]hfeisie›w)

16: [ÉA]frode€siow

17: ÉAfrode€siow (ÉAfrodeis€ou) ([K]hfeisie›w)

121/2-124/5: No. 321 of Antiochis [by deme],

Lines 6: ÉAmÊntaw ÑHrakl°vnow

12: FilÆmvn ÉAmÊntou (ÉAnaflÊstioi)

The name FilÆmvn may be restored in Agora XV (1974), No. 330, line 8: [FilÆmvn] ÉAmÊntou ([ÉA]naflÊstiow).

122/3?: No. 330 of Antiochis (by deme),

Lines 6: [Dhmoxãr]hw ÉEpiktÆtou

7: [ÉAsklhpi]ãdhw Dhmoxãrouw ([ÉA]naflÊstioi)

The father (line 6) reappears in No. 321, line 5: Dhmoxãrhw ÉEpiktÆtou (ÉAnaflÊstiow), of 121/2-124/5 (below, IX. BROTHER-BROTHER), and the son in No. 333, line 19: ÉAsklhpiãdhw Dhmoxãrou (ÉAnaflÊstiow), of 138/9. A relation may be listed in line 10 of No. 330, but the prytanis there, [ÉAgãyvn aut ÑUge›now ÉAsk]lhpiãdou ([ÉA]naflÊstiow), may be a son of the eponymus Asklepiades Hygeinou Anaphlystios of lines 13-14 of No. 333 (cf. line 16), below, under 138/9: No. 333.

127/8-131/2: No. 322 of Aiantis (by deme) [=BS 22 (1981) 152-154]

Lines 36: DionÊsio[w ---]

37: DionÊsio[w ---]

Other Dionysioi appear in lines 35 (Kl. Dãfno[w Dionus€ou] (Mara[y≈ni]ow)) and 41 and 56.

67: Kl. ÉArxi[-- ---]

68: Kl. ÉArxi[-- ---] (Fa[lhre›w)

post 127/8: 347 of Aiantis (deme), etc. [to the end of FATHER-SON category].

Ia. FATHER-SON -BROTHER (OF FATHER)-BROTHER (OF FATHER). One example.

II. FATHER-SON-SON. Five examples.

III. FATHER-SON-SON-SON. Four examples.

IV. FATHER-SON-SON (of SON). Three examples.

V. FATHER-SON-SON-SON-SON-BROTHER (of FATHER?)-SON (of SON?). One example.

VI. FATHER-SON-SON-SON-COUSIN-SON (of COUSIN?). One example.

VII. SON-FATHER. Seven examples.

VIII. SON-SON-FATHER. One potential example.

IX. BROTHER-BROTHER. Seventy-nine examples.

X. BROTHER-BROTHER-BROTHER. Seven examples.

XI. BROTHER-BROTHER-SON (of BROTHER). One example.

XII. BROTHER-BROTHER-SON (of BROTHER)-SON (of BROTHER). One example.

XIII. BROTHER-BROTHER-COUSIN. One example.

XIV. COUSIN-BROTHER-BROTHER. One example.

XV. COUSIN-COUSIN. Eleven examples.

XVI. COUSIN-COUSIN-COUSIN. One example.

XVIa. UNCLE-BROTHER-BROTHER. One potential example.

XVII. UNDETERMINED DEGREE(S) OF RELATION (cives, non-cives [Roman citizens, non-Roman citizens]). Seventy-four examples [cives: 61, non-cives: 13].

This three-page specimen illustrates what is involved in the preparation and completion of the undertaken study, first announced in PRAKTIKA TOU HÉ DIEYNOUS SUNEDRIOU ELLHNIKHS KAI LATINIKHS EPIGRAFIKHS, AYHNA, 3-9 OKTVBRIOU 1982, TOMOS BÉ (AYHNA 1987) 305-307.

ADDENDUM: Kevin F. Daly, <<Two Inscriptions from the Athenian Agora: I 7571 and I 7579>>, Hesperia 76.3 (2007) 545-554: I 7579: PRYTANY CATALOGUE OF ANTIOCHIS (XII)

Page 545, lines 41-42: ÑUge›now ÉArxim[Ædouw] / ÉAsklhpiãdhw ÉA[rximÆdouw?] (FurnÆsio[i]), and 47-48: EÎkarpow Te€mvn[ow] / Diog°nhw Te€mv[now] (ÉEruãdai). [4-XII-2007]

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