A History of Greece, 1300 to 30 BC (Blackwell History of the Ancient World) by Parker Victor

Author:Parker, Victor [Parker, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2013-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

The account in Diodorus closely follows that of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia. The few minor differences are easily explained: Diodorus was not using the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia directly, but was summarizing the work of Ephorus (late fourth century bc) instead. Ephorus, for his part, had based his account of the battle on the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia. In other words, two points exist at which a bit of confusion may have arisen as to the order in which Xenocles and Agesilaus attacked the Persians – Ephorus could have made a careless mistake in the matter, but Diodorus (who is notoriously capable of faulty summarizing of his sources – see Box 18.1) might have been careless too. The divergence in number – 600 vs. 6,000 casualties – is probably due to a copyist's error somewhere along the way (already in antiquity authors commented on how copyists made errors in transcribing cardinal numbers – see Ephorus, BNJ 70, Fr. 218).

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