Person

Diokles

Three times attested as first magistrate in Athens, in 65/64 BC [Thompson issue 98], in 61/60 BC [Thompson issue 102], and in 56/55 BC [Thompson issue 107]. From Kephisia. Son of Diokles. Eponymous Archon in Athens in 57/56 BC and priest of Asklepios and Hygieia (his additional symbols Asklepios / Hygieia / Dionysos conform to this priestly office) (Thompson 1961, p. 560; Habicht 1997, p. 16). His subsequent magistracies were explicitly mentioned in the legend by the addition of ΤΟ ΔΕΥ "for the second time" and ΤΟ ΤΡΙ "for the third time".

Lit.: M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens (1961) nos. 1249-1250, nos. 1259-1262, and nos. 1269-1270 / her issues 98, 102 and 107 (p. 560); C. Habicht, Zu den Münzmagistraten der Silberprägung des Neuen Stils, Chiron 21, 1991, pp. 6 and 15-17 (65/64, 61/60 and 56/55 BC, his issues 100, 104 and 109); Prosopographia Attica 4033; P. M. Fraser - E. Matthews, A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names II Attica (1994) p. 120 s. v. Diokles, no. 112; W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 454 s. v. Diokles.

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