nually.[1] Not until the misfortunes of Athens in the closing years of the Peloponnesian war, did Nymphaeum pass into the hands of the Bosporanic princes ; betrayed (according to Æs- chines) by the maternal grandfather of Demosthenes, the Athe- nian Gylon ; who however probably did nothing more than obey a necessity rendered unavoidable by the fallen condition of Ath- ens.[2] We thus see that Nymphaeum, in the midst of the Bos- poranic dominion, was not only a member of the Athenian em- pire, but also contained influential Athenian citizens, engaged in the corn-trade. Gylon was rewarded by a large grant of land at Kepi — probably other Athenians of Nymphajum were rewarded also — by the Bosporanic prince; who did not grudge a good price for such an acquisition. We find also other instances, — both of Athenian citizens sent out to reside with the prince Satyrus, — and of Pontic Greeks who, already in correspondence and friendship with various individual Athenians, consign their sons to be initiated in the commerce, society, and refinements of Ath- ens.[3] Such facts attest the correspondence and intercourse of that city, during her imperial greatness, with Bosporus. The Bosporanic prince Satyrus was in the best relations with Athens, and even seems to have had authorized representatives there to enforce his requests, which met with very great atten- tion.[4] He treated the Athenian merchants at Bosporus with
- ↑ Harpokration and Photius. v. (
Greek characters) — from the (Greek characters) collected by Kraterus. Compare Boeekh, in the second edition of his Staatshatu-shaltung der Athener, vol. ii. p. 658.
- ↑ Æschines adv. Ktcsiph. p. 78. c. 57. See my last preceding Vol. XI. Ch. Ixxxvii. p. 263.
- ↑ Lysias, pro Mantitheo, Or. xvi. s. 4 ; Isokrates (Trapezitic), Or. xvii. s. 5. The young man, whose case Isokrates sets forth, was sent to Athens by his father Sopseus, a rich Pontic Greek (s. 32) much in the confidence of Satyrus. Sopasus furnished his son with two ship-loads of corn, and with
money besides — and then despatched him to Athens
(Greek characters)
- ↑ Isokrates, Trapez. s. 5, 6. Sopseus, father of this pleader, had incurred the suspicions of Satyrus in the Pontus, and had been arrested; upon which Satyrus sends to Athens to seize the property of the son, to order him home, — and if he refused, then to require the Athenians to deliver him up (Greek characters), etc.
