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480 BCE

Ol. 75, 1 · archon Calliades · within Olympiad 75 · 11 claims on the desk receipt — the chronology desk

The lattice's strongest rung: the served record names the archon in its own voice, and the year's day-dates are the record's own argument.

Where the calendars part — the record's own argument over this year's dates; both sides served, the referee cited
date contested Plutarch against Plutarch: in the Lysander the same sea-fight answers to the sixteenth of Munychion — a spring date the Camillus never heard of.
on the sixteenth day of the month Munychion, the same on which they conquered the Barbarian in the sea-fight at Salamis Plut. Lysander 15 Lysander · Plutarch
dates sea-fight at Salamis — the accounts face each other in that room
date contested Clinton referees the fork: the Munychion date would drop Salamis into April, and he rules it Plutarch's error — the ruling cited to its page, never made the house's own. The excerpt carries the scan's broken Greek as found.
Plutarch, therefore, is in error when he says e/crrj enl besa tov povw\iu>vos prjvds. Glor. Ath. p. 349. F. which would be April for the date of the battle. Clinton, Fasti Hellenici vol. II (Oxford 1841), p. 32 cited, never reprinted — the apparatus shelf
dates sea-fight at Salamis — the accounts face each other in that room
date contested And the synchronism has its rival: Diodorus moors Himera to Thermopylae instead; Clinton weighs the witnesses and backs Herodotus — the desk serves the weighing, page-anchored.
But Herodotus is more entitled to credit upon this point than Diodorus XI. 24. who makes the battle of Himera coincide with the action at Thermopylae. Clinton, Fasti Hellenici vol. II (Oxford 1841), p. 32 cited, never reprinted — the apparatus shelf
dates sea-fight at Salamis — the accounts face each other in that room
The reckonings — how the year is counted, system by system; lookup from the table, never arithmetic
date secure Clinton opens Olympiad 75 with Calliades archon at Athens.
480. 01. 75. Calliades. Clinton, Fasti Hellenici vol. II (Oxford 1841), p. 32 cited, never reprinted — the apparatus shelf
The row's authorities column — beyond the excerpt's column seam — musters Dionysius, Herodot. VIII. 51 (the served ground stands as the next claim), Diodorus, the Parian Marble and Diogenes Laertius, and notes Eusebius' placement as 'a prochronism of two years'.
The record dates itself — the ancients' own year-namings and day-namings, verbatim, linked to their episodes
date secure The served record names the year's archon in its own voice — the rare rung where the lattice needs no editor.
Since the crossing of the Hellespont, where the barbarians began their journey, they had spent one month there crossing into Europe and in three more months were in Attica, when Calliades was archon at Athens. Hdt. 8.51 The Histories · Herodotus
date secure The campaign's inner calendar opens: with the first of spring the army sets out from Sardis.
At the beginning of spring the army made ready and set forth from Sardis to march to Abydos. Hdt. 7.37 The Histories · Herodotus
date conventional Plutarch's day-book: Salamis about the twentieth of Boedromion — by the same list that dates Marathon.
Moreover, it was about full moon of the same month that the Athenians won their sea-fight off Naxos, under the command of Chabrias, and about the twentieth, that at Salamis, as has been set forth in my treatise On days. Plut. Camillus 19 Camillus · Plutarch
dates sea-fight at Salamis — 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 pins Thermopylae to the panhellenic clock: the Carneia held Sparta, and the Olympiad fell across the same days.
At present the Carneia was in their way, but once they had completed the festival, they intended to leave a garrison at Sparta and march out in full force with all speed. The rest of the allies planned to do likewise, for the Olympiad coincided with these events. Hdt. 7.206 The Histories · Herodotus
dates battle of Thermopylae — the accounts face each other in that room
date secure The same clock read from the Persian side: deserters tell the King's men the Greeks are away keeping the Olympic festival.
When the Arcadians told them that the Greeks were holding the Olympic festival and viewing sports and horseraces Hdt. 8.26 The Histories · Herodotus
dates battle of Thermopylae — the accounts face each other in that room
date conventional The season before Salamis carries a festival stamp too: the Iacchus cry of the Mysteries heard over the Thriasian plain.
The cry seemed to be the “Iacchus” of the mysteries, and when Demaratus, ignorant of the rites of Eleusis Hdt. 8.65 The Histories · Herodotus
Clinton's row reads the scene as 'Salamis at the time of the Mysteries' (FH II p. 32), tying the season to Boedromion. dates sea-fight at Salamis — the accounts face each other in that room
date conventional The record reaches across the sea: Sicily's tale set Gelon's victory at Himera on the very day of Salamis.
that Gelon and Theron won a victory over Amilcas the Carchedonian in Sicily on the same day that the Greeks defeated the Persian at Salamis. Hdt. 7.166 The Histories · Herodotus
dates sea-fight at Salamis — the accounts face each other in that room
The year’s deeds — curated events anchored to this year; a live join, never a copy
battle of Artemisium — 480 BCE sea-fight at Salamis — 480 BCE battle of Thermopylae — 480 BCE
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