Timocrate di Rodi e l'oro di Farnabazo. Per una cronologia delle Elleniche di Ossirinco
In: Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica: 14-17, 2012
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Xenophon in his Hellenica and the anonymous author of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia describe the outbreak of the Corinthian war, but their
opinions diverge radically about responsabilities: the former charges Persian king of bribing Greek cities through gold fostering hatred for
the Spartan rule; the latter says hatred for the Spartan rule preceded the delivery of gold and outbreak of hostilities so that the Persian gold
was simply a mean to help Greek cities to begin a war they had already wanted to fight.
The comparison of the two narratives shows that
anonymous author wrote before Xenophon who reacted to his version of facts changing the chronological orders of events significantly
to exalt Agesilaus’s deeds in Asia Minor diverging from both the anonymous author and Spartan propaganda.