IGII2 1969 List of ephebic friends, 44/5 AD

List of ephebic friends, 44/5 AD

IG II² 1969 Date: 44/5 AD

Of Caesar. In the archonship of Antipatros the younger (44/5),^[1] the superintendent being (kosmēteuontos) Kleon, the trainer being (paidotribountos) Dioteimos (5) for the third year, the leader being (hēgemoneuontos) Epiktas.^[2] The fierce and legitimate friends (philoi gorgoi gnēsioi): Asklepiodoros, Sosikrates, Agathokles, Diodoros, Markos, Demetrios, Markos, Anthos, (10) Eisidoros, Oinops, Themistas, Philistion, Hygeinos, Demylas, Graphikos, Apollonios, Helix, Diodotos, Diophantos, Primos, Theopompos, Apollonios (son of Apollonios), Elpas, (15) Sympheron, Xystos, Protas, Amyntas, Arestos, Athenais, Protanis, Dionys Physis, Agathas, Alexandros, Olympikos, Eutychides, Eikaros, Herakleon, (20) Leukios, Dionysios, Korymbos, Eukarpos, Alexandros, Hermas, Gaius Menas, Karpos, -iras, Antas, Eisas, [Prosdok]imos. Philistion, having won the boxing (25) at the Germanikeia, dedicated this,^[3] inscribing fifty of his friends, the doorman being (thurōrountos) [Sporos].^[4]

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IG II² 1969 (Translated text) (PHI)

Wilson, Ephebic Inscriptions E.082

Schmalz 58

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: List of names (ephebic)

Original location: [Diogeneion?]

Findspot: Athens (Columbia University no. 475)

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[1] This is a list of ephebic friends, on which genre see AIUK 11 (Ashmolean), no. 5 and AIO Papers 12, sect. 1.2. This is one of three lists produced by members of the ephebic cohort of 44/5 AD; the others are IG II² 1970 and 1971. Together, these lists show that lists of ephebic friends included only a subset of the whole cohort. Of the 51 ephebes included in this list, only 25 occur in either of the other two lists. The total number of ephebes attested in all three inscriptions is 106, which is thus the lower limit for the size of the year’s cohort. This is the only evidence for the size of an ephebic cohort in the Julio-Claudian period, but is broadly the same size as the cohorts of the preceding Post-Sullan period (on which see IG II² 1039). None of the ephebes listed in this inscription can be confidently linked with individuals known from other sources. For the opening invocation of Caesar (i.e. Emperor Claudius), see IG II² 1990. For the date, see Phlegon FGrH 257 F 36 VI. [2] For the superintendent, see IG II² 3739 and AIO Papers 12, sect. 2.1. For the trainer, see IG II² 3737 and AIO Papers 12, sect. 2.2. The role of the “leader” (hegemon) is uncertain – in I Beroia 1 A. ll. 11-16, B. ll. 1-5a, a second century BC inscription concerning the ephebate at Beroia in Macedonia, a “leader” was responsible for keeping the ephebes in order and organising the gymnasium’s schedule. [3] This is the first attestation of the Germanikeia festival. Celebrated by the ephebes, it was held in honour of Germanicus (15 BC-19 AD), the adoptive son and heir of the Emperor Tiberius, father of Gaius Caligula, and brother of Claudius. The festival may have been established on Germanicus’ visit to Athens in 18 AD, after his sudden death in 19 AD, or with the accession of Caligula or Claudius in 37 and 41 AD respectively. It continued to be celebrated until the end of the ephebate in 267 AD and in the second century AD it provided the model for an array of further ephebic festivals in honour of emperors and their relatives (see AIO Papers 12, sect. 3.5.iii). [4] Name supplied from IG II² 1970. The doorman (thyroros) was a low-ranking position, often held by a non-citizen and listed at the very end of ephebic inscriptions, as here (see AIO Papers 12, sect. 2.2).

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