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Lepreon and Phyrkos in 421–420

  • Annalisa Paradiso und James Roy
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 25. September 2009
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Summary

This paper examines the tension between Sparta and Elis in 421–420 over Lepreon and the fort at Phyrkos, reported principally by Thucydides. Sparta sent Brasideioi and neodamodeis to garrison Lepreon some months before the Olympic Games of 420. The Eleans objected to this garrison as a breach of the hieromenia (rather than the shorter ekecheiria) of the Games, and both the garrisoning and an attack on the fort at Phyrkos seem to have been part of a single military operation. Phyrkos was situated in the territory of Lepreon, probably near the River Neda. Thucydides presents as parallel Mantinean control of southern Parrhasia with a fort at Kypsela near the Lakonian frontier, and Elis' desire to control Lepreon with a fort at Phyrkos near the Messenian frontier. He shows Sparta acting in 421 to remove unfriendly control of access to Sparta's frontiers and to neutralise forts posted near the frontiers.

Published Online: 2009-09-25
Published in Print: 2008-06

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