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1991: 220–21; Carradice 1987: 78; Anderson 1985: 67; Cool Root 1979:
303; Vigneron 1968: 230–31.
30. Cf. Seyer 2007: 58; Rashad 1996: 243; Palagia 2000: 183.
31. Xen. Cyr. 1.4.14; Ctesias FGrH 688 F 40–41; Plut. Mor. 173 D. Cf.
Briant 1996: 243; Seyer 2007: 58–60. According to Anderson 1985: 60,
Xenophon’s report has to be read differently. He comments on a special
and unique case: Astyages arranged the hunt for the special pleasure of
his grandson forbidding anyone else to strike a blow only until Cyrus had
hunted to his heart’s content.
32. Cf. Sancisi-Weerdenburg 1984: 117–18, 128–41; Briant 2002:
207–10; Müller 2007: 14–22.
33. Cf. Anderson 1985: 58.
34. Cf. Seyer 2007: 108–12. Believing in a custom: Hammond 1997:
155; Palagia 2000: 183; Briant 1991: 227: “il existait une étiquette aulique
qui déterminait la place de chacun lors des chasses royales.”
35. Cf. Seyer 2007: 112. For the Achaemenid Empire, Pierre Briant
points out that Megabyzos, who ignored the royal prerogative of the fi rst
blow of Artaxerxes I, expressed his doubts of the regal quality of the great
king by doing so and striking a lion. Cf. Briant 1996: 243.
36. Cf. Hampl 1965: 17; Lock 1977: 107; Hatzopoulos 1996: 338;
Hammond 1989a: 28.
37. Cf. Carney 2002: 59–60, 2006: 20–21.
38. Cf. Palagia 2000: 193–96. See also Carney 2002: 66; Calcani 1989:
100; Collins Reilly 1993: 160–62; Seyer 2007: 77–78.
39. Arr. Anab. 4.13.1. (Cf. Curt. 8.6.4). This phrase could mean that
they competed with him and, in addition, that no prerogative existed of a
fi rst royal blow as the royal hunt was a locus for competition between
ruler and those who hunted with him. Cf. Carney 2002: 61–62; Cartledge
2004: x; Vigneron 1968: 232. See also Carney 2003b: 49.
40. Arr. Anab. 1.14.1–2; Just. 11.6.6–7. Cf. Bloedow 1997: 15; Wirth
1985a: 165. See also Wirth 1985b: 168–203.
41. Diod. 17.16.1–3; 17.54.3–5; Arr. Anab. 1.13.3–7; 2.4.9–10; 2.25.2;
3.10.1–2; Curt. 3.6.4–9; 4.11.1–15; 4.13.4–10; Plut. Alex. 16.2–3; 19.3–4;
29.4; Mor. 180 B. Cf. Müller 2003: 60–79; Carney 2000c: 263–85; Hatzopoulos
1996: 339; Sisti 1994: 210–11, n. 4; Baynham 1998: 154; Devine
1994: 98; Heckel 1992: 20; Pédech 1984: 64–65; Bearzot 1987: 90, 93;
Badian 1960: 328; Berve 1926: 104.
42. Plut. Alex. 33.6. Cf. Plut. Alex. 48.4–5; Mor. 339 D–E. Cf. Wirth
1989b: 135.
43. Plut. Mor. 180 B; Alex. 29.4; Arr. Anab. 2.25.2; Curt. 4.11.10–16;
Diod. 17.54.4–5; Val. Max. 6.4 ext.3. Cf. Wirth 1993: 296–97; Müller 2003:
66–68; Sisti 1994: 209–15. It is important to remember that the Macedonian
ruler acquired land by conquest as his own possession. Cf. Hammond