02-07-2008, 11:45 PM
Quote:Quote:The most sensible is that this (4,000) was now Cleomenes’ homoioi.
Clarify for me, if you would. Are you saying that the 4,000 are a combination of the old and new citizens, or that the 4,000 are his newly enfranchised and there were also othe old citizenry on top of this, whom may not have joined in his arms reform?
My reading of Plutarch’s text is that this was the citizen body – after Cleomenes had enacted his reforms. As always we are down to syntax and meaning. To me it is reasonably clear that those who could be deemed “citizensâ€
Paralus|Michael Park
Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
Wicked men, you are sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander!
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Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
Wicked men, you are sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander!
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