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| Title: Pharos and the Question of Roman Treaties of Alliance in the Greek East in the Third Century B.C.E. Secondary Title: Classical Philology Volume: 94.4 Type: Journal Article Year: 1999 Abstract: This article is primarily a response to P. Derow's article "Pharos and Rome" (ZPE 88 (1991):261-70). Derow argued that an inscription from Pharos that seemed to indicate that the city had a treaty with Rome should be dated to the 220s BCE, rather than the mid-second century as had previously been thought. Eckstein (E.) challenges both the early dating and the interpretation of the document. E. argues that the document does not refer to an official treaty (foedus sociale), but is rather just a statement of informal friendship. He introduces numerous examples from literary sources to support his position. E. then attacks Derow's theory that Rome began using a network of treaties to connect subjected Greek poleis to itself as early as the last decades of the third century BCE. E. argues that the inscription, in addition to showing that Pharos has a connection with Rome, also shows the city acting as an independent, sovereign community; therefore, these relationships could not have been used to link subject cities to the hegemon. |