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The historian Philip of Pergamon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2020

Christopher P. Jones
Christopher P. Jones*
Affiliation:
Harvard University/Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton*
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Abstract:

This article studies the inscription IG IV2 1.687 (FGrH 95), the only evidence for the historian Philip of Pergamon. The subjects considered include the text itself, the appearance of the stone and the layout in imitation of papyrus, the date as evidenced by the lettering, the use of the Ionic dialect and the references to ‘suffering and continuous mutual slaughter’. Finally, it is proposed that Philip may be ‘the historian Philip’ mentioned in a dialogue of Plutarch.

Keywords

HelleneshistoriographyIoniclayoutPergamon
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 140 , November 2020 , pp. 120 - 127
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies

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Footnotes

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cjones@fas.harvard.edu. This short article has incurred many debts: to Glen Bowersock and Angelos Chaniotis for criticism, to Sebastian Prignitz for help unstintingly given and for the photograph of IG IV2 1.687, to Maria Mercedes Tuya for technical advice and to the readers for JHS.