Hippocles

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The left stele on the green hill in front is the Samakion stele, in the middle a stele without an inscription, on the right the stele of the rider Menes , on the left side of the picture the burial area of ​​Koroibos can be seen.

Hippocles is an ancient Athenian from the 4th century BC. BC, about which information is still known today thanks to several inscriptions .

In 1961, in Grammatiko , a town in Attica , related fragments of a relief-decorated inscription stele in honor of Hippocles were found, which were made in 332/331 BC. Was built. Accordingly, Hippocles was the son of Demokles and, like his father, came from an Attic Demos Eitea . Whether it was Eitea in the Phyle Akamantis or in the Phyle Antiochis is not clear from the inscription. Hippocles was publicly honored for his services to the demos, for his arete (virtue) and his justice. In addition to the honoring stele that was set up in the sanctuary of the Basile (or Basileia) of the demos, he received a golden wreath worth 500 drachmas, which is probably represented in the relief of the stele: a female figure wreaths a smaller, bearded man, who probably represents the honored Hippocles and who raised his right arm as a gesture of adoration .

Hippocles presumably had a daughter named Samakion, whose grave was in the last quarter of the 4th century BC. BC on the burial road of Kerameikos in Athens. The grave stele erected for them , the inscription of which also names a Hippocles from Eitea, has been preserved to this day.

literature

  • Athena G. Kaloyeropoulou in: Αρχαιολογικὸν Δελτίον (Archaiologikon Deltion). Volume 25 A, 1970, pp. 204-214, plate 70. 71.
  • Carol L. Lawton: Attic Document Reliefs, Art and Politics in Ancient Athens. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 1995, ISBN 0-19-814955-7 , pp. 102-103 cat. No. 43, plate 22.
  • Jutta Stroszeck : The Kerameikos in Athens. History, buildings and monuments in the archaeological park. Bibliopolis, Athens 2014, ISBN 978-3-943741-04-9 , p. 216.
  • Eugene Vanderpool in: Αρχαιολογικὸν Δελτίον (Archaiologikon Deltion). Volume 25 A, 1970, pp. 215-216.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 28.102 ; on relief and inscription with older literature: Carol L. Lawton: Attic Document Reliefs, Art and Politics in Ancient Athens. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 1995, ISBN 0-19-814955-7 , pp. 102-103 cat. No. 43, plate 22.
  2. ^ Inscriptiones Graecae II 6007 .
personal data
SURNAME Hippocles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Athenian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC Chr.