Epitaph for Timokritos Who Fell in Battle Against the Aetolians

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_15108
dc.title	Epitaph for Timokritos Who Fell in Battle Against the Aetolians
dc.contributor.author	Marucci Marta
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/axon/2023/2/epitafio-per-timocrito-caduto-contro-gli-etoli/
dc.description.abstract	The metrical inscription celebrates the death of the soldier Timocritus, who was killed in a clash with the Aetolians. Previous editors have unanimously dated the text to the end of the third century BCE, believing the war event to be related to one of the assaults the Aetolians made against Acarnania during the social war of 220‑217 BCE. A re-examination of the text and a comparison with other metrical epigraphs found on site and with historical sources allows an alternative dating proposal to be made. According to Livy, the polis of Tyrrheus was attacked again in 192‑191 BCE by the Etholos-Syriac troops of Antiochus III. In the absence of an autopsy examination or images of the find, it therefore seems plausible to ascribe the inscription either to the end of the third century BCE, linked to the events of the social war of 220‑217 BCE, or to the beginning of the second century BCE, connected to the Aetolo-Syrian attack of 192‑191 BCE.
dc.relation.ispartof	Axon
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 7 \| Issue 2 \| December 2023
dc.issued	2024-03-15
dc.dateAccepted	2023-11-28
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-08-02
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2532-6848
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Axon/2532-6848/2023/02/003
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Acarnania
dc.subject	Antiochus III
dc.subject	Antioco III
dc.subject	Damageto
dc.subject	Epigramma sepolcrale
dc.subject	Funerary epigram
dc.subject	Guerra sociale
dc.subject	Social war
dc.subject	Soldato
dc.subject	Soldier
dc.subject	Tirteo
dc.subject	Tyrtaeus

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Marta Marucci Sapienza Università di Roma, Italia

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abstract

The metrical inscription celebrates the death of the soldier Timocritus, who was killed in a clash with the Aetolians. Previous editors have unanimously dated the text to the end of the third century BCE, believing the war event to be related to one of the assaults the Aetolians made against Acarnania during the social war of 220‑217 BCE. A re-examination of the text and a comparison with other metrical epigraphs found on site and with historical sources allows an alternative dating proposal to be made. According to Livy, the polis of Tyrrheus was attacked again in 192‑191 BCE by the Etholos-Syriac troops of Antiochus III. In the absence of an autopsy examination or images of the find, it therefore seems plausible to ascribe the inscription either to the end of the third century BCE, linked to the events of the social war of 220‑217 BCE, or to the beginning of the second century BCE, connected to the Aetolo-Syrian attack of 192‑191 BCE.

Published

March 15, 2024

Accepted

Nov. 28, 2023

Submitted

Aug. 2, 2023

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Keywords: Guerra sociale • Damageto • Tyrtaeus • Epigramma sepolcrale • Acarnania • Antioco III • Social war • Funerary epigram • Soldier • Tirteo • Antiochus III • Soldato

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