Valdés Guía, Miriam Amparo2025-03-052025-03-052022Miriam A. Valdés Guía. Thētes epibatai in Fifth-Century Athens. Revue des études anciennes, 2022, 124 (2), p.351-377. hal-03949062https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/118542In recent years the traditional view of thētes acting as epibatai in the Athenian fleet in fifth century BC has been strongly challenged by different authors. This issue is broached here by re-examining the ancient sources, as well as other factors like demography (especially in relation to the casualties of the Peloponnesian War) and forms of conscription. Deploying new arguments, it is suggested that some of the members of the census class of thētes might have customarily served as hoplites in the fifth-century Athenian navy, but that manpower shortages during the Peloponnesian War might have modified thfe way in which epibatai were conscripted.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/journal article0035-2004https://hal.science/hal-03949062v1/file/valdes-REA-%202-2022-2.pdfopen access94(38)ThētikonEpibataiHoplitesDemographic changesFifth century AthensHistoria antigua5504.01 Historia Antigua