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Aristodemus the Historian Fragments on Mardonius in Greek
The work known as Fragments on Mardonius by Aristodemus the Historian is attested solely by its title, recorded by the 19th-century scholar Karl Müller in his collection Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum. The title indicates its subject was Mardonius, the Persian commander during the Greco-Persian Wars, particularly at the Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE. No content from the work survives, and it is considered entirely lost, with no known manuscript tradition. Its significance is purely bibliographical, serving as evidence for the existence of one among many minor historical treatises from antiquity that are no longer extant.
| 1b.(l1) | PAP. OX. 2469 s. 2 p. (vol. 27, 1962, 141—145 [Taf. 5]); ... ⸤ λαβὼν δὲ ὁ Μαρδόνιος πρῶτον ἔπε ⸥ μ̣ψ ⸤ εν ˈ Ἀλέξανδρον τὸν ⸥ Μακε̣δ ⸤ όνα ˈ πρὸς Ἀθηναίους ὑπισ ⸥ χνού ⸤ μεˈνος δώσειν μ ⸥ ύ̣ρια τάλα ⸤ νˈτα καὶ ⸥ 〈ἐλευθερίαν καὶ〉 ⸤ αὐτονομ ⸥ ίαν αὐτ[οῖς] ˈ ⸤ τηρήσειν, εἰ ⸥ μένοιεν ˈ ⸤ ἐφ’ ἑαυτῶν κα ⸥ ὶ̣ μὴ συμˈ ⸤ μαχ ⸥ [οῖεν] ⸤ τοῖσ ⸥ Ἕ̣λλησιν̣. ˈ [οἱ δὲ Ἀθηναῖοι] ἐξέβαλον ˈ [τὸν ἄνδρα. διόπ]ερ ὁ Μαρδόˈ ⸤ νιοσ ⸥ [εἰς Ἀθήνας ἐνέ]βαλεν ˈ [τὴν στρατιὰν] ⸤ κ ⸥ α̣ὶ̣ τὰ 〈περι〉λειˈ ⸤ πόμενα προσε ⸥ νέπρησεν. ˈ [ἔπειτα δὲ περὶ Θ]ή̣βας ἐστραˈ ⸤ τοπεδεύσατο, οἱ δ ⸥ ὲ Ἕλληˈ ⸤ νες ἐστρατο ⸥ πεδεύσαν̣ˈ ⸤ το ⸥ [περὶ Πλαται]άς. μεταξὺ ˈ [δὲ τούτων] ⸤ στάδια ⸥ ἐν μέσω〈ι〉 ˈ ⸤ ἐστὶν ὀγδο ⸥ ήκοντα. ˈ ⸤ συνπαρετάσσον ⸥ το δὲ Μαρˈ ⸤ δονίωι Βοιωτῶ ⸥ ν καὶ τῶν ˈ [Ἑλλήνων τ]ῶ̣ν̣ μηδισάνˈ[των] ⸤ μυρ ⸥ ιάδες τέσσαρες. ˈ ⸤ εἶχον δὲ ⸥ τὸ μὲν δεξιὸν ˈ ⸤ κέρας Πέρσ ⸥ α̣ι̣, τὸ δὲ εὐώνυˈ ⸤ μον οἱ μ ⸥ ηδ{ε}ίσαντες Ἕλˈ ⸤ ληνες. τῶ ⸥ ν δὲ Ἑλλήνων ˈ [τὸ μὲν δε]ξιὸν κέρας Ἀθηˈ ⸤ ναῖοι ⸥ [κα]τεῖχον, Λακεˈ ⸤ δαιμόνιο ⸥ ι δὲ θάτερον, 〈μετέστησαν δὲ Ἀθηναίους οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι〉 φήˈ ⸤ σαντες Ἀθ ⸥ ηναίους ἐμπειˈ ⸤ ροτέρουσ ⸥ εἶν〈αι〉 ἤδη πρὸς ˈ ⸤ τὸ μάχεσθα ⸥ ι τοῖς Πέρσαις. ˈ ⸤ ἐν δὲ τούτωι ⸥ Μαρδόνιος [] |