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grbs-16032	Kholod, Maxim M.	Achaemenid Grants of Cities and Lands to Greeks: The Case of Mentor and Memnon of Rhodes	2018	21	.pdf	application/pdf	8745	356	61	T 178 ACHAEMENID GRANTS OF CITIES AND LANDS ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 58 (2018) 177–197 Myrina, and Gryneium, which were also controlled by his descendants, the Gongylides, at the beginning of the fourth century.4 The refugee Themistocles was granted Lampsacus, Magnesia on the Meander, Myus, Percote, and Palaescepsis by the Persian king (Xerxes or already Artaxerxes I), and these cities had to provide him respectively with wine, bread, seasonings, and bedding and clothing.5 Among the holdings granted in Asia Minor were also those of Mentor and Memnon, Rhodian brothers, famous commanders of Greek mercenaries, who managed to enter and occupy a prominent place in the military-political elite of the Persian Em- pire in the last decades of its existence.6 This article aims to consider the holdings of Mentor and Memnon and thereby to contribute, to a certain extent, not only to a better understanding of the broader problem of granting cities and lands to individuals in the Achaemenid Empire but also to our knowledge of the life and activities of these two un- doubtedly outstanding persons. Demosthenes, describing the actions of Charidemus with his mercenary troops in Asia Minor (the late 360s) makes clear that Mentor and Memnon desired to hold Ilium, Scepsis, and Cebren in the Troad, which had been treacherously cap- tured by Charidemus, and so persuaded Artabazus to conclude a truce with the general and not prevent him from leaving those cities (23.154, 157).8 It is not known whether Artabazus satisfied that desire of his brothers-in-law; but taking into consideration their strong influence on him, this seems highly probable.9 If so, they hardly became tyrants in these cities (at least there is not even a hint of such in our sources) but most likely acquired the right to derive for themselves some portion of income from the communities.	cache/grbs-16032.pdf	txt/grbs-16032.txt