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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

A king or magistrate of SAMOS in the ARCHAIC AGE (3.59.4). Herodotus states that when Amphicrates was basileus the Samians had campaigned against AEGINA, doing (and suffering) much damage. The only TIME frame Herodotus supplies for this is “earlier” than the events he has just narrated, which occurred c. 520 BCE. Proposed links with the “LELANTINE WAR” are tenuous; recent scholars have found a date c. 600 more likely (Carty 2015, 25–28; Figueira 1983, 21–22). It is possible that Herodotus’ term basileus refers to an eponymous magistrate of Samos, rather than a “king” in the usual sense.

SEE ALSO: Chronology