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Figueira, Gastón; Herrera, Flavio

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“…); and i[f anyone proposes] or puts to the vote [...] reserv[ed ...]'. 51 The term for 'reserved' is the same as that used by Thucydides (exairetos) 52 and the phrase 'if anyone proposes or puts to the vote' looks very similar to the 'entrenchment clause' reported by Thucydides, laying down penalties for any proposal to use the 'Iron Reserve' for any purpose other than repulsion of a Spartan naval attack. Perhaps a tentative proposal to tap into this fund had been floated in 415, and so the Athenians felt the need to reaffirm its untouchability in the strongest possible terms.…”

Section: Lysimache and Lysistrata 135mentioning

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Lysimache and Lysistrata

Thonemann¹

2020

J. Hell. Stud.

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Abstract:It has long been suspected that the eponymous heroine of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata was intended to evoke the historical Lysimache, priestess of Athena Polias at the time of the play’s first production. But the reasons for this (partial) identification have been relatively little discussed. This paper argues that the Lysistrata engages more closely than has traditionally been assumed with urgent political issues at Athens in late 412 and early 411 BC, in particular with the decision in summer 412 BC to broach the ‘Iron Reserve’ of 1,000 talents set aside at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War (Thuc. 8.15.1). A possible intervention of the historical Lysimache in the controversy over the appropriate use of the ‘Iron Reserve’ would help account for various otherwise surprising features of the Lysistrata.

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Section: Lysimache and Lysistrata 135mentioning

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Lysimache and Lysistrata

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2020

J. Hell. Stud.

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