THE ATHENIAN ARCHON HOPLON.

The article focuses on the Athenian Archon of the 3rd century B.C., Hoplon. Hoplon was identified by Eugene Vanderpool in 1971 as an Areopagite member of the Asklepieion commission in 215/4 B.C. and assigned his archonship to 217/6 B.C. The article shows, however, that Hoplon's archonship on the said period was improbable. On the basis of the inscriptions studied, the author argues that assigning Hoplon's archonship to 223/2 allows a more realistic reconstruction of his activities in the Boule of the Areiopagos than does Vanderpool's chronology.