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479 BCE

Ol. 75, 2 · archon Xanthippus · within Olympiad 75 · 7 claims on the desk receipt — the chronology desk

Clinton prints Xanthippus from Diodorus and the Parian Marble; the served Plutarch (Aristides 5) reads the same archon-year off the list as 'Xanthippides' — Clinton's row carries the variant with a (sic). One office, two spellings, both served.

Where the calendars part — the record's own argument over this year's dates; both sides served, the referee cited

date contested Plutarch dates Plataea to the fourth of Boedromion — and stages the calendar fork himself: the Boeotian reckoning says Panemus twenty-seventh, and he counsels no wonder at the discrepancy.

This battle was fought on the fourth of the month Boedromion, as the Athenians reckon time; but according to the Boeotian calendar, on the twenty-seventh of the month Panemus, the day when, down to the present time, the Hellenic council assembles in Plataea, and the Plataeans sacrifice to Zeus the Deliverer for the victory. We must not wonder at the apparent discrepancy between these dates, since, even now that astronomy is a more exact science, different peoples have different beginnings and endings for their months. Plut. Aristides 19 Aristides · Plutarch

dates battle of Plataea — the accounts face each other in that room

date contested The same pen gives Plataea a different day in the Camillus — the third of Boedromion, shared with Mycale; the desk lets the two Plutarchs stand facing.

Again, on the sixth day of the month of Boedromion the Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon, on the third day at Plataea and Mycale together Plut. Camillus 19 Camillus · Plutarch

dates battle of Plataea — the accounts face each other in that room

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date secure Clinton closes the corridor at Olympiad 75, 2, Xanthippus archon.

479. 75,2. Xanthippus. Clinton, Fasti Hellenici vol. II (Oxford 1841), p. 32 cited, never reprinted — the apparatus shelf

The row's authorities column cites Diodorus (Diod. XI. 27) and the Parian Marble — beyond the excerpt's column seam; the archon-name variant is on the year's own apparatus line.

The record dates itself — the ancients' own year-namings and day-namings, verbatim, linked to their episodes

date secure The served record reads the archon list over Plataea: Mardonius fell after Xanthippides — the same office Clinton's authorities call Xanthippus.

But in the official records, after Xanthippides, in whose year of office Mardonius was defeated at Plataea Plut. Aristides 5 Aristides · Plutarch

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date secure Herodotus spaces the two occupations of Athens ten months apart — the interval that carries the war across the archon-year seam.

There were ten months between the kings taking of the place and the later invasion of Mardonius. Hdt. 9.3 The Histories · Herodotus

date conventional The table sets the season in September, Plutarch's Aristides cited as its authority.

in September: Plutarch. Aristid. c. 19. Clinton, Fasti Hellenici vol. II (Oxford 1841), p. 32 cited, never reprinted — the apparatus shelf

The row's events column reads 'Plataea, Mycale, in September' across the column seam; the excerpt keeps the clean segment. dates battle of Plataea — the accounts face each other in that room

The synchronisms — what the record ties to the same time; the lattice's cross-braces

date secure Herodotus locks the year's two victories together: Plataea in the morning, Mycale toward evening — the same day of the same month, checked by the Greeks themselves not long afterwards.

for the defeat at Plataea happened while it was yet early in the day, and the defeat of Mykale in the afternoon. That the two fell on the same day of the same month Hdt. 9.101 The Histories · Herodotus

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battle of Plataea — 479 BCE

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