chapter one
Scholars have typically located Dolopia’s incorporation into the Aito-
lian League in the aermath of the Gallic invasions of –. In /
or /, Aitolian representation on the Delphic Amphictiony increased
to three votes from the two which they had previously acquired in /
or /.
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Topography and strategic concerns both suggest that Dolopia
joined the Aitolian League in the interval and that their vote went over to
the Aitolians.
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Much in this reconstruction remains hypothetical, how-
ever, and Grainger notes only Dolopians in his Aitolian prosopogra-
phy.
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Unlike the Oitaians, the Dolopians do not seem to have played an
especially prominent role in the League.
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Independent Ainian hieromnemones at the Delphic Amphictiony are
last attested in / or /, which provides a rm terminus post quem
for Ainian accession to the Aitolian League.
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In an important Aitolo-
Akarnanian treaty dating from the second or third quarter of the third
century, an Ainian is one of seven treasurers of the Aitolian League.
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Scholarly consensus has settled on the late s to early s for the
treaty’s establishment, although dates as early as the s and as late as
the s have been proposed.
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Ainian accession to the Aitolian League
must therefore belong to this period as well.
A Lamian decree of / which uses the strategos of the Aitolian
League as eponymous magistrate provides a terminus ante quem for
Malian entrance into that koinon.
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e dramatic, if temporary, gains in
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Amphictionic list of / or /: CID , –. For the date, see CID , pp. –
. Amphictionic list of / or /: CID , .
78
Scholten , pp. – makes the strongest circumstantial case for reciprocal
interests between Aitolia and Dolopia.
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Grainger , p. .
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Grainger hypothesizes that the Syagros mentioned by Phylarchus (FGrHist F)
as general of the Aitolian League, dated by Klaenbach to /, was a Dolopian on the
basis of a later homonym serving as a homonym at Delphi in , but this is not at all
certain and the city origins of Syagros are best le open. See Grainger , p. , for a
hypothetical reconstruction of Syagros’ stemma.
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CID , .
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Agrios son of Sosthenes (IG .
2
., A).
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For recent discussion, see Scholten , –, – (SEG , ).
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IG ., . e general, Hagetas from Kallipolis, held the oce in / and /.
Since there is no reference in the inscription to Hagetas’ ‘second’ term as general, it is
safe to assume the earlier date of /. See the table in Grainger , p. , and
Grainger , p. , s.v. Hagetas (). e Lamians later dedicated a statue of Hagetas
at ermon (IG .
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., A). A second Lamian inscription, IG ., , is also dated by
Aitolian strategos, but only the rst letter of the name, an iota, and the ethnic, Arsinoeis,
are preserved. Unfortunately no known general of the Aitolian League ts there criteria.