Reginald Walter Macan, Herodotus, The Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books with Introduction and Commentary

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Ἴωνες supply 100 ships: the particular contingents are not given. Eigbt Ionian cities bad contributed 283 sbips to tbe fleet at Lade in 494 B.C., if Hdt. is to be trusted, 5. 8; cp. my note ad l. (Cbios 100, Miletos 80, Samos 60). Tbat the Ioniaus are described as ἐσκευασμένοι ὡς Ἕλληνες, the Dorians as ἔχοντες Ἐλληνικὰ ὅπλα, need not be takeu as a jibe at tbe expense of the Ionians compared with Dorians and Aiolians. Tbe ‘Hellenes’ here are the national forces arrayed against the ‘Barbarian.’

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ὡς Ἕλληνες λέγουσι: a very clear reflexion on bis literary sources (cp. Introduction, § 10), here per baps the Γενεαλογίαι of Hekataios. There is, however, no reference to tbe excursus on tbe Ionians and tbeir antecedents in 1. 143-146, a passage bardly reconcilable witb tbis, as Blakesley pointed out, for the genealogical purity of the Ionians is here recognized and there disputed. Blakesley accordingly suggests tbat tbe present passage belongs to the original draft of tbe work, wbile the other is an addition of a later period.

It may be noted that Danaos and Xouthos in tbis passage apparently arrive in the Peloponnesos at the same time, while in 2. 98 Danaos is two generations later than Xoutbos.

Πελασγοὶ Αἰγιαλέες: cp. 5. 68 (and my note ad l.). Tbe ‘Pelasgian’ character of tbe Ionians is most clearly asserted in 1. 56-58. serious as are the difficulties in whicb tbat assertion involves Hdt., especially with regard to the Athenians; cp. 6. 137 ff. (and notes).