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vitality of poleis
what is a polis?
Pausanias, 10.4.1
expresses doubt that Panopeus can be called a polis, because it had no "government offices, no gymnasium, no theatre, no market-place, no water descending to a fountain"
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yet Sparta did not have walls, for example, until Hellenistic times
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Austin 236
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good evidence for what makes a polis: here we have the grant of "your own laws, a gymnasium...the council and magistrates"
how to measure vitality?
self-sufficiency
Austin 118
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suggests a weakness of public finances, in that this unnecessary expenditure had to be out-sourced
Austin 130
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suggests that they were not able to sustain themselves without the goodwill and benefaction of others
Austin 115
Olbia honours Protogenes for many services to the city, late 3rd-early 2nd century
Olbia was a colony of Miletus on the Black Sea, and here has dependance on a wealthy benefactor
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Austin 133
Delos gives honours to Aristobolus of Thessalonica, sitones of Demetrius II
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Athens
timeline
Athens was 'saved' in 307 BC, and wove images of Demetrius and Antigonos on the peplos of the Greater Panathenaia of 306, shown fighting giants alongside Zeus and Athens
Kassander tried to take Athens back in 304, but Demetrius 'saved' them again
he resided in the western room of the Parthenon, and held orgies in the temple (Plutarch)
also at this time the long run of Parthenon inventories, inscribed annually since 434, came to a pause - Demetrius likely using Athena's sacred store as his personal tableware
Demetrius left Athens in 301, and Lakhares claimed the tyranny
Lakhares plundered Athens of its gold and silver, and robbed the gilded shields that Alexander had sent for the Parthenon
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Pergamon Imitation
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King Attalos I defended against the Gauls backed by the Seleukids, and over the next 75 years the Attalids honoured the victory by drawing parallels to Athens' defence against the Persians
a version of Pheidias' Athena Promachos was placed in the sanctuary of Pergamene patron goddess Athena Polias Nikephoros
in the library stood a loose, marble version of the chryselephantine Athena Parthenos
In Athens itself
on the acropolis, in 178 BC, Eumenes II dedicated a nearly 9m tall pillar of grey marble to support a bronze quadriga, which was on almost the same line as the Temple of Athena Nike
a tower crowned by a bronze chariot was built in honour of Attalos II at the northeast corner of the Parthenon, reaching nearly as high as the columns of the Parthenon itself, and obstructed the view of the northernmost metopes