Note 293 — Chapter II · Athens

Time of Hippias, Head, Hist. Num.2 p. 368 (but cp. ibid. n. 3); Seeck, Klio, IV. (1904), pp. 173–5; 508 B.C., Holwerda, Album Herwerden, p. 119; 500 B.C. or after, V. Fritze, Zeits. f. Num. XX. (1897), p. 142: Kampanes, B.C.H. XXX. p. 75; 490 B.C., Six, Num. Chron. 1895, p. 176: Earle Fox, Coroll. Num. B. V. Head, p. 43: Babelon, Coroll. Num. B. V. Head, p. 8: J. I. d’A. N. VIII. (1905), pp. 44 f.; 480 B.C., Howorth, Num. Chron. 1893, p. 245: Lermann, Athenatyp. pp. 28 f. As regards a post-Hippias dating, the ungarlanded head of a coin with Hippias’ name is not decisive. The coin, which is abnormal, was probably struck by the tyrant in exile, and the absence of garland may indicate either the exile’s grief or the local coiner’s incompetence. Or was the embarrassed despot casting away the ornaments of sovereignty in the hope of retaining or regaining the reality? “The olive again has been known to lose its leaves and yet produce its fruit; this is said to have happened to Thessalos the son of Peisistratos,” Theophrast. Hist. Plant. II. 3. 3; cp. Ruehl, Rhein. Mus. 1892, p. 460.