“Like Men Driven from a Captured City” (Plut. Phoc. 28. 4): Reconsidering the Displacement of the Disenfranchised Athenians to Thrace in 322 BC

Abstract

Τhis note examines the problem of the Athenian exiles migrated to Thrace in 322 BC, after the suspension of democracy in Athens and the imposition of a census regime. In particular, it is argued the possibility that the Athenian exiles were settled by Antipater in a city of Thrace, Sane, located in an area of the Chalcidian peninsula initially placed under the control of Antipater and then passed after 316 under the control of his son Cassander, when the city was re-founded as Sane-Ouranopolis by Cassander’s brother, Alexarchos.

Keywords

• Athens
• Antipater
• Thrace
• exile
• Sane-Ouranopolis
• Alexarchos