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Contents of the Eleventh Book of Diodorus
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1The following year Theageneides was
archon in Athens, and in Rome the consuls elected were Lucius Aemilius Mamercus and
Lucius Julius Iulus, and the Seventy-eighth Olympiad was celebrated, that in which Parmenides
of Posidonia won the "stadion." In this year a war broke out between the Argives and Mycenaeans
for the following reasons.
[2]
The Mycenaeans, because of the
ancient prestige of their country, would not be subservient to the Argives as the other cities
of Argolis were, but they maintained an independent
position and would take no orders from the Argives; and they kept disputing with them also over
the shrine of Hera2 and claiming that they
had the right to administer the Nemean Games3 by
themselves. Furthermore, when the Argives voted not to join with the Lacedaemonians in the
battle at Thermopylae unless they were given a
share in the supreme command, the Mycenaeans were the only people of Argolis who fought at the
side of the Lacedaemonians.
[3]
In a word, the Argives were
suspicious of the Mycenaeans, fearing lest, if they got any stronger, they might, on the
strength of the ancient prestige of Mycenae,
dispute the right of Argos to the leadership. Such,
then, were the reasons for the bad blood between them; and from of old the Argives had ever
been eager to exalt their city, and now they thought they had a favourable opportunity, seeing
that the Lacedaemonians had been weakened and were unable to come to the aid of the Mycenaeans.
Therefore the Argives, gathering a strong army from both Argos and the cities of their allies, marched against the Mycenaeans, and after
defeating them in battle and shutting them within their walls, they laid siege to the city.
[4]
The Mycenaeans for a time resisted the besiegers with vigour,
but afterwards, since they were being worsted in the fighting and the Lacedaemonians could
bring them no aid because of their own wars and the disaster that had overtaken them in the
earthquakes, and since there were no other allies, they were taken by storm through lack of
support from outside.
[5]
The Argives sold the Mycenaeans into
slavery, dedicated a tenth part of them to the god, and razed Mycenae. So this city, which in ancient times had enjoyed such felicity,
possessing great men and having to its credit memorable achievements, met with such an end, and
has remained uninhabited down to our own times.These, then, were
the events of this year.
1 468 B.C.
2 The famous Heraeum, situated at about the same distance from Mycenae and Argos in the hills south of the former. In it was later a celebrated statue of Hera, of gold and ivory, by Polycleitus.
3 These Games had been first under the supervision of the city of Cleonae. The question of their supervision must have been in the air at this time, since it was transferred to Argos in 460 B.C.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, ARGIVE HERAION Argolid, Greece.
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), PERIOECI
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