Year — one rung of the editor’s lattice; every claim below carries its ground or says it has none

489 BCE

Ol. 72, 4 · archon Aristides · within Olympiad 72 · 3 claims on the desk receipt — the chronology desk

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

date contested The record argues with itself about this archonship: Demetrius of Phalerum moves Aristides' year to after Plataea; Plutarch answers him from the official records.

And yet Demetrius of Phalerum says that it was a little while before his death, and after the battle of Plataea, that the man held this office. But in the official records, after Xanthippides, in whose year of office Mardonius was defeated at Plataea, you cannot find, long as the list is, so much as the name Aristides Plut. Aristides 5 Aristides · Plutarch

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date conventional Clinton counts the year Olympiad 72, 4, with Aristides archon — on the word of the Parian Marble and Plutarch.

489. 72, 4. Aristides. Mar. Par. No. 50. Plutarch. Aristid. c. 5. Clinton, Fasti Hellenici vol. II (Oxford 1841), p. 28 cited, never reprinted — the apparatus shelf

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date conventional Plutarch reads the archonship straight off the list: Aristides took the office of Archon Eponymous — the year after Phaenippus.

Aristides at once received the office of Archon Eponymous. Plut. Aristides 5 Aristides · Plutarch

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