Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum: 519

THE ACHAEANS HONOUR THE HOSTAGES FROM BOEOTIA AND PHOCIS

Greek text: Achaïe_3.118
Date: c. 228/7 B.C.
Tags: hostages+captives , leagues
Format: see key to translations

This decree has been interpreted as evidence that the Boeotians and Phocians supported the Achaeans in the early stages of the war against Kleomenes; see A.Schachter, "Boiotia in Antiquity: Selected Papers", page 357 ( Google Books ), and E.Mackil, "Creating a Common Polity", pp.471-2 ( Google Books ).

It was resolved by the Achaean league, to grant proxeny to the hostages of the Boeotians and Phocians, both for themselves and for their descendants:

Eudamos of Plataia, the son of Brychon
(?) Archelaïdas of Tanagra, the son of Olympion
Aristomenes of Oropos, the son of Meilichos
Apollodoros of Koroneia, the son of Asklepiodoros
Akrotatos of Thebes, the son of Ismenodoros
Rhodon of Haliartos, the son of Timokrates
Aristion of Orchomenos, the son of Kallippides
Nikeas of Thespiai, the son of Korrinades
Klearetos of Phanotis, the son of Antileon
Leontiades of Elateia, the son of Nikoboulos.

They shall have freedom from taxes, inviolability both in war and in peacetime, both by land and by sea, and all the other rights that are granted to other proxenoi and benefactors. When the damiourgoi were . . . Bourios, Nikandridas . . .

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