7.159, alluding to Il.7.125.
7.161.3, alluding to Il.2.552 – 54.
Clarke 1999a, 121, on Diod. Sic. 13.114.3 (an artful passage, where Diodorus
reinforces his sense of closure by announcing the end of the book).
Diod. Sic. 16.88.3: Asheri 1991 – 92, 86; Purcell 1994, 391 (“a sign of how
eagerly parallels between East and West were observed”); Clarke 1999a, 121.
Note the “reverse simile” character of the significance of the synchronism
between the peace of Antalcidas and sack of Rome drawn by Justin 6.6.5 (quoted by
Walbank 1957 – 79, 1:47): hic annus non eo tantum insignis fuit quod repente pax tota Grae-
cia facta est, sed etiam eo quod eodem tempore urbs Romana a Gallis capta est.
Purcell 1995, 139.
On this theme, see above all Momigliano 1977a, esp. 53 – 58; cf. Vattuone 1991,
chap. 9, “Timeo, Pirro e la ‘scoperta’ di Roma.” Vattuone 2002 provides a condensed
introduction, together with an invaluable bibliographical discussion (226 – 32).
For his synchronistic chronological work, see FGrH566 T 10 – 11.
Mendelssohn 1876; Brown 1958; Momigliano 1977a; Pearson 1987; Walbank
1989 – 90; Meister 1989 – 90; Vattuone 1991; Asheri 1991 – 92.
Mendelssohn 1876, esp. 185 – 89; Brown 1958, 13 – 14, 43 – 44; Pearson 1987, 57 –
59; Walbank 1989 – 90, 47, 53; Asheri 1991 – 92, 88. Synchronism was not his only tool:
he claims a “direct” physical link between West Greece and Hellas “proper” by elabo-
rating on Pindar’s claim that the river Alpheius runs under the sea from the Pelopon-
nese to reemerge in Syracusan Ortygia (Pind. Nem.1.1 – 2; Polyb. 12.4d = FGrH566 F
41b): see Dench 1995, 51.
Plut. Mor.717C = FGrH566 F 105, alluding to, without necessarily quoting,
Timaeus’s words. Plutarch actually says this was the year of Dionysius’s birth, but all
agree this is a slip on his part.
Asheri 1991 – 92, 79; cf. above, p. 40; other speculation in Pearson 1987, 157.
Hanell 1956, 151, 166; Walbank 1957 – 79, 1:48; Mazzarino 1966, 2.2:447.
Walbank 1957 – 79, 1:48.
See Asheri 1991 – 92, 56, for some trenchant remarks on the fashion for “dis-
covering, or rather inventing, an ‘Axial Age ’ in a roughly synchronous line of great
names that presumably represents a period of spiritual breakthrough.” A fair hit
(directed, without naming names, against Karl Jaspers 1953), but the question of simul-
taneous parallel developments in cultures without necessarily close ties continues to
engage the attention of serious historians: see C. Kidd 2004, 14, for discussion of the
claim in Bayly 2004 that “the mid 19th-century witnessed a second age of revolutions.
The Europe of 1848 was part of a wider bout of global dislocation which included the
Indian Mutiny, the Taiping rebellion in China and the American Civil War.” My
thanks to Tony Woodman for drawing my attention to this issue. For an overview of
notes to pages 46 – 48
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