caa a22 4500 388106352 CHVBK 20180307125339.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/632312 doi S0075426900018693 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/632312 Schmidt Desmond Cambridge An unusual victory list from Keos: IG XII, 5, 608 and the dating of Bakchylides [Elektronische Daten] [Desmond Schmidt] This paper discusses the interpretation of an important historical document: IG XII, 5, 608, a victory list from Iulis on ancient Keos. Since its discovery in 1883 it has always been described as a chronologically ordered official victory list of Kean athletes who have won at each of the major games. The surviving portion contains one complete list prefixed by the words ‘these won at Nemea', and preceded by fourteen other names, which must, following the usual order, belong to Isthmian victors. Since the two lists together name two athletes for whom Bakchylides wrote victory songs, Argeios (odes 1 and 2) and Lachon (odes 6 and 7), it has long been used as a means of dating the first pair of poems, as well as the victories mentioned on the inscription not celebrated by Bakchylides. More recently, it has been used to fix the death of that poet to just after 452, in spite of a clear reference to him in Eusebios' Chronicle under the year 431. It is the contention of this paper that this unique victory list has been misclassified and misinterpreted. It is not a chronologically ordered official victory list; it is rather an honorific victory list in which the entries are arranged by decreasing order of importance. This interpretation, and its various repercussions, destroys many of the currently accepted views about the dating of Bakchylides. Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1999 The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 119(1999-11), 67-85 0075-4269 119<67 1999 119 JHS https://doi.org/10.2307/632312 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/632312 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Schmidt Desmond Cambridge NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 119(1999-11), 67-85 0075-4269 119<67 1999 119 JHS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge