Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum: 696
THE ATHENIANS REINTRODUCE THE PYTHAIS AT DELPHI
Greek text: FD_3.2.7 , FD_3.2.29
Date: 138/7 B.C.
Format: see key to translations
Under this heading, Sylloge³ collected the inscriptions referring to the celebration of the Pythaïs in the year that it was reintroduced, in 138/7 B.C. ( see Syll_698 ). This first Pythaïs was not performed on such a lavish scale as the subsequent events, from 128 B.C. onwards.
Two of the inscriptions have not been translated here: B ( FD_3.2.11 - Greek text ), a list of the 39 boys who formed the chorus of the Pythaïs; and D ( FD_3.2.23 - Greek text ), a list of 58 men who are assumed to the ephebes for 138 B.C.
[A] With good fortune. When Timokritos was archon at Delphi, and Timarchos was archon [at Athens], these men were sent [out] by the Athenian people:
- chief theoroi of the Pythaïs :
Thrason son of Ouliades
Menemachos son of Pausimachos
- theoroi :
Leonteus son of Leonteus
Ammonios son of Demetrios
Athenades son of Kratermos
- from the Pyrrhakidai :
Eukles son of Timanax
- from the Eupatridai :
Konon and Apollodoros sons of Konon
Konon and Theopompos sons of Konon
Charikles son of Theodoros
- from the Tetrapoleis:
Pythion son of Pythion
Arkesilaos son of Harpalos
Eunikos son of Sostratos
[C] [These girls] were sent out by the Athenian people as kanephoroi with the Pythaïs:
- Gorgo daughter of Philanthos
- Eudama daughter of Kallikles
- Aristonike daughter of Lykophron
- Sostrate daughter of Sotion
- Philantho daughter of Aristaichmos
- Nikarete daughter of Herakleitos
- Eurydike daughter of Diodoros
- Kallistomache daughter of Echedemos
- Artemisia daughter of Attalos
- Aristiŏn daughter of Kratippos
- Mammia daughter of Apelles
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