Pages 405-419 A NEW ATHENIAN EPHEBIC LIST

Agora I 7545, a fragmentary ephebic list of the late 1st century b.c. or early 1st century a.d., records the names of six individuals, at least three of whom are otherwise unattested. The document honors ephebic officers and a trainer known from other inscriptions, Menis(s)kos of Kolonai. Two ephebes, Dio nysodoros son of Sophokles of Sounion and Gorgias son of Architimos of Sphettos, appear to be related to members of the genos of the Kerykes recorded in IEleusis 300 of 20/19 b.c. The inscription demands a reassessment of the dates and careers of Meniskos and Dionysodoros, and raises questions about the constituency of the Kerykes in the Early Roman period. Presented here is the editio princeps of Agora I 7545, a fragmentary ephebic list found in the Athenian Agora in 1982.1 The list is similar in both form and content to IG IP 1965 + 3730, an ephebic list of ca. 45-40 b.c., and some of the individuals named are apparently related to members of the genos of the Kerykes listed in IEleusis 300, a decree of 20/19 b.c in honor of the daduch Themistokles. Although the text is brief, the inscription has important prosopographical and chronological implications, which I ex amine in detail in the discussion that follows