IGII2 1200 Decree of Aixone honouring the <i>choregoi</i>, Leontios and Glaukon, 317/6 BC

Decree of Aixone honouring the choregoi, Leontios and Glaukon, 317/6 BC

IG II² 1200 Date: 317/6 BC

Gods. Philoktemon son of Chremes proposed:^[1] the demesmen shall decide, since the choral sponsors (chorēgoi) in the (5)archonship of Demogenes (317/6), Leontios son of Dion, Glaukon son of Kallikrates, sponsored choruses for the Aixoneans well and with love of honour (philotimōs), to praise them and crown them (10) with a gold crown of 500 drachmas each for their love of honour (philotimias) . . .

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References:

IG II² 1200 (Translated text) (PHI)

SEG 34.102 (PHI)

Ackermann, Aixone, 117-119 no. 3

Csapo and Wilson II, 66-67

Russo, Ripartizioni, D15

Translation by: Stephen Lambert

Images: Krateros - (1)

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Decree (Deme Aixone)

Findspot: Pirnari (= Aixone) (EM 12667)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] On the deme Aixone and its inscriptions see Ackermann no. 1, with notes. This discovery of this decree was recorded in the 19th century in an excavation at "Trachones". Modern Trachones is to the north of Aixone (location of the deme Euonymon), but in the 19th century "Trachones" apparently extended further south and the excavation was most likely at Pirnari, on the eastern side of Glyphada (Ackermann, 112-13).

This decree, like Ackermann no. 2 (proposed by the same man) and no. 4, honoured two choregoi who had "sponsored choruses" at the local Dionysia. On the question of exactly what choruses were sponsored cf. the note to Ackermann no. 2. The choregoi are not otherwise known. This decree is notable as the latest firmly dated evidence for the operation of the classical Athenian choregia (Csapo-Wilson). For its replacement at city level by the agonothesia see IG II³ 4, 518, with notes.

Added: 19 Jul 2022
Updated: 13 Mar 2024
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