Deed — 2 authors face each other below

fall of Athens

kind: fall · 404 BCE — the editor’s frame · 2 mentions across 2 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

The surrender to Lysander and the demolition of the Long Walls; distinct from Sulla's sack of 86 BCE.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Both witnesses give the same unbearable music: Xenophon's flute-girls at the wall-breaking 'deeming that day the beginning of liberty to Greece,' Plutarch's crowned allies making merry to the flute while the triremes burned. Convergence this exact is itself evidence — of a scene no one could resist retelling.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 404 BCE on the editor’s table of years .

· 404 BCE — date secure ·

404 BCE; Plutarch fixes the day — 'the sixteenth day of the month Munychion, the same on which they conquered the barbarian at Salamis.'

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Plutarch · one account

14–15 the principal narrative The victor's biography: the anniversary of Salamis, the flutes, the fires.

and then tore down the walls, and burned up the triremes, to the sound of the flute Plut. Lysander 15

Lysander · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

Xenophon · one account

2.2 the principal narrative The contemporary's account: the famine, the terms, the walls.

to the accompaniment of female flute-players, deeming that day the beginning of liberty to Greece. Xen. Hell. 2.2

Hellenica · H. G. Dakyns, 1890-1897

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Lysander — 2 episodes shared Agamemnon — 1 episode shared Agis — a candidate entry Alcibiades — 1 episode shared Archestratus — a candidate entry Eteonicus — a candidate entry Euripides — 1 episode shared Hellene — a candidate entry Hermocrates — 1 episode shared Pausanias — a candidate entry

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

lives · deeds · times · the shelf