IGII2 2119 Catalogue of ephebes, 191/2 AD (?)

Catalogue of ephebes, 191/2 AD (?)

IG II² 2119 Date: AD 189/90 – 191/2

[For good] fortune, Gods. [The superintendent (kosmētēs) of the ephebes of] the archonship of Gaius Pinarius Proculus of Hagnous, Tiberius Flavius [Demetrios of] . . . inscribed his own fellow magistrates and the ephebes under him.^[1]

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uncertain number of lines missing (5) Tharg(elion): . . . ^[2] Ski(rophorion): . . . Heka(tombaion): the superintendent^[3] Meta(geitnion): Attikos Competition directors (agōnothetai)^[4] (10) Antinoeia in the City: [the superintendent] and the controllers (sōphronistai). Antinoeia at Eleusis: Peisandros (son of Peisandros) of Gargettos Stephanos (son of Stephanos) of Myrrhinoutta. (15) Hadrianeia: Myron son of Kallist- Philadelpheia: Kalliphron son of Proteimos Theseia: Flavius Heliodoros Menochares of Cholleidai^[5] The Contest of Prowess (peri Alkēs): Aurelius Alkamenes (20) ⟦[Commodeia]⟧ «Commodeia»:^[6] Kalliphron son of Athenaios and Cassius Spendon Epinikeia: the superintendent and [the controllers?] Athenaia: the superintendent Germanikeia: the ephebes. uninscribed line (25) Archon: Aurelius Alkamenes^[7] General: Statius Athenogenes Herald: Kalliphron . . . King: Eperastos son of Menandros Polemarch: . . . (30) Court Presidents (thesmothetai) Athenaios (son of Athenaios) of Acharnai Serapion son of Asklepiades Polykleitos, also known as Poseid(onios) Claudius Polynikos of Eupyridai (35) Trophimos son of Athenodoros uninscribed line Market inspectors (agoranomoi) Epagathos (son of Epagathos) of Oion Chariton son of Epagathos of Oion City inspectors (astunomoi) (40) Avidius Pharnakes Avidius Octavianus uninscribed line Erechtheis^I^[8] Apollonios son of Demetrios . . . Menandros son of Demetrios . . . (45) Epiktetos son of Apollophanes . . . Herakleon son of Isarchos . . . -istos (son of -istos) . . . . . . son of Diophanes . . . -os (son of -os) of Lamptrai (50) Aigeis^II . . . . . .

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Ptolemais^V [Asklepia]des, also known as Meno(doros) of Phlya [Zosimian]os son of Zosimos of Phlya (55) -os son of Glykon of Berenikidai . . . of Melainai^[9] Akamantis^VI [Dionysios] son of Epigonos of Sphettos [Athenion] son of Epigonos of Sphettos (60) [Epigonos] (son of Epigonos) of Sphettos . . . (son of . . . ) of Thorikos . . . son of Soterichos of Kerameis . . . (son of . . . ) of Kerameis [Prosdektos] son of Modestos of Kephale (65) . . . (son of . . . ) of Kephale -les (son of -les) of Kerameis uncertain number of lost lines [Hippothontis]^X uncertain number of lost lines . . . son of -phoros . . . son of -santh- Aiantis^XI (70) . . . son of Karpos . . . son of -enes . . . son of Antiochos . . . son of Antiochos . . . son of -ios of Marathon (75) Antiochis^XII . . . son of Pamphilos of Leuko(pyra) . . . son of Pamphilos of Leuko(pyra) . . . son of -ykos of Pallene . . . son of -ykos of Pallene (80) . . . son of Trophimos of Pallene . . . son of -ion of Anaphlystos . . . son of -omachos of Alopeke Attalis^XIII . . . son of -lon of Hagnous . . . of Hagnous (85) . . . son of -genes of Hagnous . . . of Hagnous . . . son of Aphrodi- . . . son of Eudoxos of Sounion uninscribed space Additional enrollees (epengraphoi)^[10] . . . (90) . . . son of -ios . . . son of -sios . . . . . . . . . son of -os . . . son of Paramonos (95) . . . son of -kos . . . son of -n . . . son of -ros . . . son of -iros . . . -eus (100) . . . son of -sos . . . . . . . . . -os son of Primos . . . . . . . . . -non . . . . . . son of . . . . . . (105) . . . son of -tos -onos (son of -onos) . . . son of Diony- . . . Eucharistos . . . (110) . . . son of Nikasion . . . son of -eisios uncertain number of lines lost . . . son of -anos

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Epaphrodeitos son of Euporos Metrodoros son of Metrodoros, Eutyches (son of Eutyches) (115) Attikos son of Hermeias, Epagathos (son of Epagathos) Isidotos son of Hermeias, Potamon (son of Potamon) Athenaios son of Memnon Epigonos son of Moschos Symphoros son of Moschos (120) Noumenios . . . Valerius . . . Eu- G- . . . (125) . . . . . . . . . ca. 35 lines lost These won the contests (agōnas)^[11] of the ephebes: The Race to Agrai: All (130) the ephebes. The Antinoeia in the City: herald: Niketes son of Glaukos, encomium: Statius Athenogenes, poetry: Protogenes son of Apollonios (135) long-distance race (dolichon): Zosimos son of Apol-, 1st class stadion race: Dionysios son of Epigo(nos), 2nd class stadion race: Avidius Octavianus, 3rd class stadion race: Avidius Pharnakes, double-length race (diaulon): Aphrodeisios son of Agathokles, (140) 1st class wrestling: Eperastos son of Menandros, 2nd class wrestling: Stephanos son of Stephanos. 3rd class wrestling: Junius Epeios, 1st class pankration: Junius Semnos, 2nd class pankration: Avidius Pharnakes, 3rd class pankration: Claudius (145) Polynikos. Race in armour (hoplon): Polyklitos. The Antinoeia at Eleusis: herald: Niketes son of Glaukos, encomium: Statius Athenogenes, poetry: Protogenes son of Apollo-, (150) long-distance race: Zosimos son of Apollonios, 1st class stadion race: Tatianus son of Trophimos, 2nd class stadion race: Herakleon son of Eisarchos, 3rd class stadion race: Aphrodeisios son of Agathokles, double-length race: Avidius Pharnakes, (155) 1st class wrestling: Eperastos son of Menandros, 2nd class wrestling: Karpos and Herakleon son of Eisarchos, 3rd class wrestling: Claudius Polynikos, 1st class pankration: Elpinikos son of Pamphilos, 2nd class pankration: (160) Praises son of Euphrosynos, 3rd class pankration: Junius Epeios. Race in armour: Chariton son of Epagathos. The Hadrianeia: herald: Niketes son of Glaukos, (165) encomium: Statius Athenogenes, poetry: Protogenes and Kastor, long-distance race: Myron (son of Myron), 1st class stadion race: Epagathos (son of Epagathos), 2nd class stadion race: Herakleon son of Eisarchos

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(170) 3rd class stadion race: Diogenes son of Achoristos, double-length race: Avidius Pharnakes, 1st class wrestling: Eperastos and Zosimianos, 2nd class wrestling: Karpos son of Karpos, 3rd class wrestling: Junius Epeios, 1st class pankration: Prosdektos son of Modestos, 2nd class pankration: (175) Serapion son of Asklepiades, 3rd class pankration: Alexandros (son of Alexandros), race in armour: Athenaios (son of Athenaios). The Philadelphia: herald: Apollonios son of Demetrios, [encomium: Statius] Athenogenes, poetry: Protogenes son of Apollonios, long-distance race (180) Zosimos son of Apollonios, 1st class stadion race: Tatianus son of Trophimos, 2nd class stadion race: Herakleon [son of Eisarchos], 3rd class stadion race: Avidius Pharnakes. double-length race: Aphrodeisios son of Agathokles, 1st class wrestling: Eperastos son of Menandros, 2nd class (185) [wrestling: Avidius] Octavianus son of Octavianus and Epiktetos [son of Apollonios. 3rd class] wrestling: Claudius Polynikos. 1st class [pankration:] Nikias son of Nikias. 2nd class pankration: Avidius Pharnakes, [3rd class pankration:] Junius Epeios, race in armour: Karpos son of Karpos. The Theseia: herald: Apollonios (190) [son of Demetrios], encomium: Statius Athenogenes, [poetry:] Protogenes son of Apollonios, long-distance race: [Zosimos] son of Apollonios, 1st class stadion race: [Epagathos] son of Epagathos, 2nd class stadion race: Claudius Cornelianus, [3rd class] stadion race: Diogenes son of Achristos. (195) [double-length race: Zosimos] son of Apollonios, 1st class wrestling: [Eperastos] son of Menandros, 2nd class wrestling: Stephanos [son of Stephanos, 3rd class] wrestling: Claudius Polyneikos. 1st class [pankration:] . . . son of Philon. 2nd class pankration: . . . 3rd class pankration: Ariston (200) . . . [and] Soterichos, race in armour: Claudius The- ⟦[The Commodeia]⟧:^[6] herald: [Apollonios] son of Demetrios, encomium: Statius [Athenogenes], poetry: Avidius Octavianus, long-distance race: [Zosimos son of] Apollonios, 1st class stadion race: Epagathos (son of Epagathos), (205) [2nd class stadion race:] Kornelianos, [3rd class] stadion race: . . . double-length race: Apollonios, [son of Demetrios, 1st class wrestling:] Eperastos son of Menandros, [2nd class wrestling: Serapion son of Asklepiades, 3rd class] wrestling: . . . [and] Aristeides. 1st class pankration: (210) . . . [2nd class pankration:] Apollonios son of Gly-, [3rd class pankration:] . . . race in armour: Athenaios. [The Epinikeia?: herald: Apollonios] son of Demetrios - - - - - - - - - - [long-distance race . . . 1st class stadion race:] Apollonios [son of Demetrios, 2nd class stadion race:] (215) Herakleon [son of Eisarchos, 3rd class stadion race: Statius] Athenogenes, [double-length race: Apollonios] son of Demetrios, [1st class wrestling: Eperastos] son of Menandros, [2nd class wrestling: Herakleon] son of Eisarchos, [3rd class wrestling:] . . . (220) 1st class pankration: . . . [2nd class pankration:] Serapion [son of Asklepiades, 3rd class] pankration: Serapion [son of Asklepiades,] race in armour: Athenaios. uninscribed line These men competed in the naval battle (enaumachēsan):^[12] (225) Protogenes [son of Apollonios,] Zosimianos, Aphrodeisios, . . . -genes. On- won. [The] torch-race (lampadian) for the Heroes: . . . -doros. The torch-race for Gaius . . . : (230) Flavius Menochares, [Avidius] Pharnakes. The torch-race: Epagathos [son of Epagathos,] Athenaios son of Alexandros.^[13] The protreptic [orations] were delivered by Kalliphron son of [Proteimos] and Statius Athenogenes. (235) The speeches at the Haloia of the ephebes [were delivered by] Flavius Heliodoros, Flavius Menochares, Kalliphron son of Proteimos, Statius Athenogenes. (The speech) at the Contest of Prowess: Aurelius Alkam(enes)^[14]

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(240) Theseidai^[15] Flavius Heliodoros Flavius Menochares Athenaios son of Athenaios Eperastos son of Men(andros) (245) Claudius Polynikos Zosimianos son of Zosi(mos) Dionysios son of Epigo(nos) Apollonios son of Dem(etrios) Alexandros son of Alexandros (250) Myron son of Kalli(st-) Casius Spendon

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Herakleidai^[15] Serapion son of Asklepiades Herakleon son of Isarchos (255) Junius Semnos Helix son of Helix Athenion (son of Athenion) Sophos son of Chairem(on) Epigonos son of Glau(kos) (260) Aristeides (son of Aristeides) Nikias son of Aphrodi(sios) Athenodoros son of Athenodoros Isidotos son of Herm(eias)

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IG II² 2119 (Translated text) (PHI)

Wilson, Ephebic Inscriptions E.252

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: List of names (ephebic)

Original location: [Diogeneion]

Findspot: Athens, St. Demetrios Katephores (EM 10348)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] Ephebic catalogues like this were erected annually from the late first century AD until the end of the ephebate in 267 AD. For the format, see AIUK 11 (Ashmolean), no. 10 and AIO Papers 12 sect. 1.3, and for the earlier history of the ephebate, see RO 89. From the same year is Hesp. Supp. 8, 1949, 217, 8, an honorific inscription for the superintendent (kosmetes), now lost, from which the superintendent’s name is restored. On the superintendent in the Roman period generally, see see IG II² 3739 and AIO Papers 12 sect. 2.1. For the date, see Byrne RCA, p. 509 and 530 (191/2 AD), but note J. L. Shear, ZPE 180, 165-67 (189/90-191/92 AD). [2] A large part of column 1 is lost. This lost section would have contained the list of controllers (sophronistai), and tutors who served in this year. The surviving part of the column resumes at the end of the list of monthly ephebic gymnasiarchs, on whom see IG II² 1990 and AIO Papers 12 sect. 2.3. [3] When no ephebe volunteered to perform the gymnasiarchy or competition directorship, the superintendent, deputy superintendent, or the controllers could perform the role instead (cf. AIUK 4.3B (BM), no. 4). It was also possible for the ephebes to pay the cost collectively, as in l. 24 and IG II² 2044, l. 34. [4] The competition directors (agonothetai) were ephebes responsible for funding the ephebic competitive festivals. They tend to overlap closely with the ephebic gymnasiarchs. Both positions prepared wealthy elite youths for the role as benefactors in adult life (see AIO Papers 12 sect. 2.3). On the competitive festivals that they organised, see AIO Papers 12 sect. 3.5.iii. Unusually, the individual events and victors in these games are listed in full at ll. 141-278 (see n. 11). [5] The brothers Heliodoros and Menochares (ll. 17-18) were the sons of the superintendent and appear prominently in the catalogue, as was common for superintendent’s children in the Roman period. There are seven other pairs and one trio of brothers in this catalogue. On such “ephebic twins” and “triplets” see IG II² 1963 n. 2. [6] At l. 20 and 201, the Commodeia festival in honour of the Emperor Commodus has been erased, in accordance with the damnatio memoriae that was passed against him after his death in 192 AD. Commodus’ name was reinscribed in l. 20, following his rehabilitation and deification in 197 AD, when the Emperor Septimius Severus (193-211 AD), added “brother of the divine Commodus” to his official titulature (Cass. Dio, Rom. Hist. 76.7.4; O. Hekster, Commodus, 2002, 189-95). Commodus' name is also erased and reinscribed in SEG 26.127, ll. 36, 51, 67; SEG 59.138, l. 4, 13; and I Eleusis 503; it is erased and not reinscribed in Agora XV 407, ll. 8-9; 411, l. 3; 416, ll. 3-5; 418, ll. 3-4; 419, ll. 4-6; I Eleusis 513; 516; IG II² 3412; 2113, ll. 2-3, 53; 2116, l. 10; and probably IG II² 2114, l. 1. On damnatio memoriae in Imperial-period Athens, see IG II³ 4, 1397 with notes. [7] For the ephebic archons, see IG II² 2017 and AIO Papers 12 sect. 2.3. The ephebic archon and competition director of the Contest of Prowess, Aurelius Alkamenes, belonged to one of the most prominent families in late second and early third century Athens (cf. AIUK 4.3B (BM), no. 5). [8] The citizen ephebes, excluding the gymnasiarchs, competition directors, and archons, are listed by tribe in ll. 42-91. The names of 40 ephebes from six out of the thirteen tribes are preserved, suggesting a total citizen cohort of around 85, which would be normal for the late second century AD (cf. AIO Papers 12 sect. 1.3). Five of these regular ephebes are subsequently attested as members of the Council of 500. [9] On Melainai cf. IG II² 1963, l. 55 with note. [10] On the “additional enrollees” (epengraphoi), see IG II² 2017 and AIO Papers 12 sect. 4.1. Traces of 52 names are preserved here, with space for at least 35 more in col. 3. Lists from the late second century AD range between 39 and 110 epengraphoi (AIO Papers 12 sect. 1.3), so the size of the cohort is about average. None of the individual epengraphoi is otherwise attested. [11] For a brief period in the late second century AD, ephebic catalogues included a full list of the victors at the ephebic games. This inscription is the best-preserved example (the others are IG II² 2120, 2114, 2115). These lists provide an insight into the range of events in which the ephebes competed. These are generally in the same format as contemporary Panhellenic games, except for the absence of musical events. Each festival featured a combination of rhetorical and athletic contests, both being considered important spheres of male excellence in the Imperial period (AIO Papers 12 sect. 3.2 and 3.4). In the former category are the competitions in heralding, in encomiastic oratory, and in poetry. In the athletic category, are four foot-races: the stadion race (ca. 176 m), the double-length race (diaulos, ca. 352 m), the long-distance race (dolichos, probably 24 stades = ca. 4225 m), and the race in armour (hoplon, also ca. 176 m); as well as two combat events: wrestling (palē) and pankration (“total domination,” i.e. no-holds-barred wrestling). The stadion race and the combat events were divided into multiple classes (taxeis). The basis of these divisions is unclear, especially since, at ll. 236-37, the same ephebe appears to have won in both class two and three of the same event (see AIO Papers 12 sect. 3.5.iii). Competition was open to both regular ephebes and ephebic liturgists (i.e. gymnasiarchs, competition directors, and archons), but the latter seem to have been disproportionately likely to win. None of the victors are epengraphoi, suggesting that they were not allowed to compete in these events (see AIO Papers 12 sect. 4.3, with breakdown of the victories in this inscription). The “race to Agrai” won by “all the ephebes” seems to be a continuation or development of the procession in honour of Artemis Agrotera, whose sanctuary was at Agrai, which opened the ephebic year in the Hellenistic period (see AIO Papers 12 sect. 3.5). [12] For the “sea-battle” (naumachia) see AIUK 11 (Ashmolean), no. 10 and AIO Papers 12 sect. 3.5.i. [13] This is the only reference to torch-races in an ephebic catalogue of the Imperial period, but several dedications by victors in torch races survive, showing that they remained important in the Imperial age as in earlier times (e.g. IG II³ 4, 421). The races “for the Heroes” and “for Gaius...” (perhaps Gaius Caesar, heir of Augustus?) are not otherwise attested. See AIO Papers 12 sect. 3.5.ii. [14] Protreptic orations were exhortations to virtuous conduct; one example survives as SEG 50.155. The four speakers are the two sons of the superintendent, the ephebic general, and the ephebic herald (who also won the encomium contest at every single festival in the year). Aurelius Alkamenes, the ephebic archon, delivers the speech at the Contest of Prowess festival that he had funded. [15] The Herakleidai are only known from this list; the Theseidai also appear in a partially preserved catalogue published by D. S. Sourlas, in A. P. Matthaiou and N. Papazarkadas, eds., Studies Stroud, 2015, 299-322. The location of the Herakleidai and Theseidai in this list suggests that they were linked to the Contest of Prowess (Peri Alkes) festival. Unlike the other ephebic festivals, the Contest does not seem to have consisted of athletic events. SEG 12.110 places it at Eleusis and associates it with two “infantry commanders” (taxiarchoi), perhaps one for each of these groups. The very fragmentary SEG 26.246 (late ii AD) may associate the event with a bull-lifting ritual which is also known from Hellenistic sources. See AIO Papers 12 sect. 3.5.iv.

Textual note: The translation follows the IG text, with a few minor exceptions. We follow Wilson at 13-14 patronymic symbol (Ͻ); 16 Πρ[οτείμου]; 72 Κά]ρπου. The restorations in ll. 33 and 53 derive from Sean Byrne’s Athenian Onomasticon. Our line numbers differ from IG because IG erroneously included l. 2 in l. 1.

Added: 14 Jan 2021
Updated: 29 Mar 2024
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