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Line : Isagoras is described as serving as agonothete at the ‘twenty
…’ iteration of the Eleutheria. As discussed in Chapter Two, when com-
bined with the prosopography of the inscription, this admission pro-
vides strong evidence that the Eleutheria were a penteteric festival. Like
the Olympia, and increasingly many other festivals in the Hellenistic
and Roman period that seem to have taken the Olympia as a model,
iterations of the Eleutheria were numbered sequentially.
45
If the ordi-
nal has been interpreted correctly, then it would seem to draw attention
to the establishment of the festival and the concomitant refoundation of
theessalianLeagueintheaermathoftheSecondMacedonianWar,
events which continued to loom large in the region more than a century
later.
Line : Kern’s
!νκων is probably correct and certainly approximates
the sense of what is required. is Kleonikos, father of the priest of Zeus
Eleutherios, is unknown.
46
Line : Stratios of Kierion was victorious trumpeter at the Ptoia at
Akraiphia ca. –.
47
Line : Kramolisch’ restoration is possible; he would identify this
Agathon as the father of Agathoklea of Larisa who is attested as a man-
umittor in the middle of the rst century, and possibly a descendent of
–b, p. , no. b (McDevitt , pp. –, no. ). Cf. LGPN B s.v.
QΙσαγ#ρας ; Φερεκρτεις . Kramolisch , p. , speculates that this Isagoras may
have been the father of the Pherekrateswho would hold the generalship of the essalian
League ca. –. Kramolisch , pp. , , oers another, less likely possibility:
that this individual was Isagoras son of Nysandros, from Larisa, general of the essalian
League ca. and a hieromnemon in Larisa ca. (Giannopoulos , pp. –, no.
A (McDevitt , p. , no. )). Cf. LGPN B s.v.
QΙσαγ#ρας . is Isagoras will
thus have had an exceptionally long career in public life. Either possibility would t the
lacuna: At letters,
Νυσνδρου Λαρισαου would t what remains of the lacuna in l.
perfectly; the slightlylonger
Φερεκρτους Λαρισαου ( letters) would also be possible.
Isagoras was a popular name in Larisa, though (cf. LGPN B s.v.
QΙσαγ#ρας –, with
seven other attestations in essaly, polis unspecied), and it is best to leave the matter
open.
45
Slater , p. , with further references.
46
LGPN B s.v. Κλε#νικος .
47
Bizard , pp. –, no. ; for the date, see Gossage , pp. –. Cf.
Stephanis , p. , no. ; LGPN B s.v.
Στρτιος .Hisbrother,Philoarnoswas
victorious trumpeter at the espian Mouseia ca. – (Iesp (IG , )); cf.
LGPN B s.v.
Φιλ#αρνος . Nothing is known of their father, Melanthios. Cf. LGPN
B s.v.
Μελν"ιος –, where the fathers of Philarnos and Stratios are not solidly
identied as the same individual.