RATIONES RERUM 26: Articolo Virgilio Costa

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Rationes Rerum 26

VIRGILIO COSTA
Artaserse III Ochos e l’alleato riluttante. I rapporti di forza tra la Persia ed Atene alla vigilia della battaglia di Cheronea

In 344/3 BC two embassies arrived in Athens almost simultaneously, one sent by Philip II of Macedonia, the other by the Persian king Artaxerxes III Ochos. According to Didymos of Alexandria, the response given to the latter was «more arrogant than necessary». The article proposes to attribute this judgment not to Didymos, but to his main source, the Atthidographer Philochoros.