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Headword: *me/twn Adler number: mu,801 Translated headword: Meton Vetting Status: high Translation:
The mathematician [of that name]. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "Meton's year".[1]
This Meton[2] became the best doctor and astronomer. His is the so-called "year of Meton". Kallistratos says that there is an astronomical device of his set up in Kolonos, though Euphronios [says] that Kolonos was his deme. Before Pythodoros[3] there was a sundial in what is now the [sc. place of] assembly, next to the wall on the Pnyx. Alternatively because he constructed a fountain in Kolonos. Phrynichus in Recluse says: "Who is it who is thinking after these? -- Meton of L[e]ukonoion. -- I know, the fountain-maker".[4] Or perhaps because he contrived a fountain in Kolonos, or prepared a statue or astronomical offering.
[1] His 19-year cycle. See epsilon 1331.
[2] Material from the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 997, where Meton appears and gives his name (web address 1). Sense can be made out of their confusing information (and disinformation) about Meton -- most of it directed towards explaining why Kolonos is mentioned in line 998 -- by consulting the bibliography listed below. See also next note.
[3] This phrase unintelligibly abridges one in Philochorus FGrH F122: "under [sc. the archon] Apseudes, the one before Pythodoros", i.e. 433/2.
[4] Phrynichus fr. 21 Kock, now 22 K.-A.
References:
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995) 550-1 and 554-5
OCD4 s.v. 'astronomical instruments' and s.v. 'Meton'.
Phillip Harding, The Story of Athens: the fragments of the local chronicles of Attika (2008) 119-120
