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Who was Diogenes of Oenoanda?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

A. S. Hall
A. S. Hall
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University of Keele
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Many citizens of Oenanda are named ‘Diogenes’ on inscriptions surviving there from the Roman period, yet the most famous of them all, who gave his name to the vast Epicurean treatise now lying in fragments across the northern part of the site, has still to be securely identified.

Those who have studied Diogenes' treatise do not agree on a date for the setting-up of the inscription. C. W. Chilton followed most earlier scholars in accepting a date ‘about A.D. 200’, but M. F. Smith, who has devoted great efforts in recent years to the recovery and study of the text, has found reasons for proposing a date as early as Hadrianic times.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 99 , November 1979 , pp. 160 - 163
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1979

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References

1 A full list will be given in a forthcoming article in Anatolian Studies.

2 For the position of the fragments, see Fig. 3 (p. 195) of ‘The Oenoanda survey: 1974–76’, Anat. St. xxvi (1976) 191–7. The implications are discussed on 194 and 196.

3 Chilton, C. W., Diogenes of Oenoanda. The Fragments. (1971)Google Scholar Introd. p. xx.

4 Smith, M. F., ‘Oenoanda: The Epicurean Inscription’, Acta of the Tenth International Congress of Classical Archaeology (Ankara 1978) 841–7Google Scholar.

5 See now Clay, D., ‘Philippson's “Basilica” and Diogenes' Stoa’, AJP xcix (1978) 120–3Google Scholar, in which the alleged reference to a ‘basilica’ in Diogenes fr. 51 is shown to be the metaphorical use of a medical term, βασιλικόν.

6 Grilli, A., Diogenis Oenoandensis Fragmenta (Milan 1960) 20Google Scholar.

7 Marked on Fig. 2, opp. p. 192, of ‘The Oenoanda survey: 1974–76’ (n. 2 above) in Area Lr.

8 IGR iii 500.

9 Chilton, op. cit. (n. 3) xx–xxi.

10 Inscribed in large letters across the top of all the surviving columns.

11 See the discussion by DrJameson, S. of the ramifications of the family of the Licinnii of Oenoanda in ‘Two Lycian Families’, Anat. St. xvi (1966) 125–37CrossRefGoogle Scholar, esp. 125–8. She reproduces as Stemma I the family tree of the Licinnii drawn up by Heberdey, R. and Kalinka, E. in Denkschr. d. Akad. Wien xlv (1897) 46Google Scholar.

12 Chilton, op. cit. (n. 3) xix n. 1.

13 ‘The Oenoanda survey: 1974–76’ (n. 2) Fig. 2, Areas Mm, Mn and Mp.

14 I take advantage of renewed discussion of the date of the Constitute Antoniniana, opened by Millar, Fergus's suggestion, J. Egypt. Arch. xlviii (1962) 124CrossRefGoogle Scholar, that autumn 214 might have offered a suitable occasion for Caracalla's edict. The father of Aur. Kroisos Tlepolemus—Simonides Kr. Tl.—is mentioned as agonothete on another base at O. published by Heberdey and Kalinka (op. cit. 50 no. 67).

15 For the skills of the pancratiast, see Gardiner, E. N., Athletics of the Ancient World (1930) ch. xvi, 212–21Google Scholar, and Harris, H. A., Greek Athletes and Athletics (1964) 105–9Google Scholar, esp. 108—‘the supreme test of strength and skill in combination’. H. W. Pleket has recently emphasised that ‘the participation of members of the urban elite…was one very important constant in Greek athletics… from Pindar's time until Roman imperial times’. See his article ‘Games, Prizes, Athletes and Ideology’ in Arena i 1 (1976) 49–89, esp. 74. Flavillianus illustrates this ‘constant’ perfectly.

16 The name of Euarestus appears on 14 surviving bases at O., on 11 of which he is the presiding magistrate at the games. There is an erasure on 10 of these.

17 Heberdey and Kalinka, op. cit. 49 no. 65, lines 6–9:…πρῶτον τῶν ἐν/τῇ πατρίδι συνστησάμενον / ἀγῶνα κοινὸν Λυκίων θέμι/δος πενταετηρικῆς.…

18 Bowersock, G. W., Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire (1969)Google Scholar ch. ix, has discussed the best known instances.

19 TAM ii 905 = IGR iii 739.

20 Survey Inventory No. 1050 (= Vienna Schedae no. 52). This inscription will be published elsewhere.

21 For another Lycian example, see IGR iii 693, from Aperlae.

22 Robert, L., Hellenica iv 47–50Google Scholar, ‘Epigrammes relatives à des Gouverneurs’, studies an example praising another Lycian from Sidyma, Flavius Eutolmius Tatianus, which probably dates from the early fifth century A.D. The present example is unlikely to be later than 230 A.D.