Members of the Delian League


The members of the Delian League/Athenian Empire can be categorized into two groups: the allied states reported in the stone tablets of the Athenian tribute lists, who contributed the symmachikos phoros in money, and further allies, reported either in epigraphy or historiography, whose contribution consisted of ships, wood, grain, and military assistance; proper and occasional members, subject members and genuine allies.

Analysis

The study of the symmachikos phoros provides the following insights: The amount of tax paid by each state is written in Attic numerals. One-sixtieth is dedicated to Athena, the patron goddess of the city. The membership is not limited to Ionians or Greek city-states. Allied states of Western Greece are not categorized under a fiscal district the Thracian, Hellespontine, Insular, Carian and Ionian phoros of the eastern states; somehow comparable districts to the former Achaemenid satrapies of Skudra, Hellespontine Phrygia, the Yaunâ on this side of the sea, Karka, and the Yaûna across the sea. The categorization of members under these fiscal districts appeared first in the list of 443/2 BC. After 438 BC, the Carian phoros became part of the Ionian district and after c. 425 BC a new Aktaios phoros, comprising the coastal Troad, was created out of the Hellespontine district. During the Sicilian Expedition a fragmentary list suggests that the Athenian state had created a Magna Graecian district. The following names are readable: Naxians, Catanians, Sicels, Rhegians. The only references until now on the Pontic phoros are the list of 425/4 BC and 410/09 BC.
Paradoxically, although the modern current term for the alliance is "Delian League", inscriptions have not yet been found on the island related to the League, and the information about the transfer of the treasure comes from the chronologization of the first Attic tribute list in 454 BC and not by Thucydides, who just informs about the treasure and the center of the Athenian power/alliance being on Delos. The first inscription which records the Athenians and allies comes from Delphi, dating to c. 475 BC, is fragmentary, and the names of the allies are not readable or not mentioned. There is an epigraphical gap between 475 and 454 BC, although the phrase Athenians and allies is always present in historiography.
The exact location of several inscribed cities is still debated. Athenian cleruchies and colonies like Amphipolis are considered part of the Athenian state and not members of the League.

Fiscal districts (443-409 BC)

Insular ''phoros''

Nesiotikos phoros

Euboea

Cyclades

North Aegean

Unknown region

  • Grynches

Ionian ''phoros''

  • Ionikos phoros
  • Astyrenoi Mysoi in 444/443 and 438/437

Islands

Aeolis

Ionia

Unknown region (of Ionian or Carian phoros)

  • Airaies
  • Amynandes
  • Boutheia
  • Chalkeatai
  • Cheronnesioi
  • Diosiritai
  • Edries Messes
  • Erines
  • Gargares
  • Heraioi
  • Hiera para Sidymeas
  • Hyblisses
  • Idymes
  • Isindioi
  • Karbasyandes
  • Karyes para Idyma
  • Kasolabes
  • Klaundes
  • Killares, whom rules
  • Kindyes, whom rules
  • Kodapes
  • Koioi
  • Krosa or Crusa
  • Kyromes
  • Lepsimandes
  • Marathesioi
  • Oranietai
  • Pactyes Idymeus ruler
  • Pasandes
  • Pladases
  • Pteleosioi
  • Sidosioi
  • Taramptos
  • Tarbanes
  • Teichiossa

Carian ''phoros''

''Karikos phoros''

Caria and Doris

Dodecanese

Lycia

Lycaonia

  • Milyae tribe

Pamphylia

Cilicia

  • Ityra
  • Kelenderis

Thracian ''phoros''

''Thrakios phoros''

Pieria

Mygdonia

Chalcidice

East Macedonia

Thrace proper

Sporades

Unknown region

  • Asseritai
  • Chedrolioi
  • Haisa
  • Galaia
  • Kossaioi
  • Miltorioi
  • Othorioi
  • Pharbelioi
  • Pieres at Pergamon
  • Pergamoteichitai
  • Sermaies
  • Singeion
  • Skablaioi
  • Smilla Gigonos
  • Thyssioi
  • Tinda

Hellespontine ''phoros''

''Hellespontios phoros''

Islands

Thrace

Thracian Chersonese

Asia Minor

Unknown region

  • Arisbaioi
  • Artaioteichitai
  • Azeies
  • Brylleianoi
  • Daunioteichitai
  • Gentinioi
  • Halonesioi
  • Harpagianoi
  • Kebrenioi
  • Kianoi
  • Kolones
  • Lamponeies
  • Limnaioi
  • Metropolis (Anatolia) ?
  • Neandreies
  • Neapolis ?
  • Otlenoi
  • Paisenoi
  • Palaiperkosioi
  • Perkosioi of the city Perkote
  • Serioteichitai
  • Skapsioi
  • Sombia
  • Teria para Brylleion
    ''Aktaiai Poleis''
The cities of the Aktaios phoros, the coastal Troad, separated from the Hellespontine district in 427 BC following the Mytilenaean revolt and first appearing in the tribute lists of 425/4 BC.

Pontic ''phoros'' (Black Sea)

Pontikos phoros

Other allies

Aegean
Cyprus
Egypt
Ionian Islands
West central Greece
Macedonia
Magna Graecia
Peloponnese

Primary sources

454/3 BC, 443/2 BC, 442/1 BC, 441/0 BC, 440/39 BC, 439/8 BC, 435/4 BC, 433/2 BC,
429/8 BC,
425/4 BC, 422/1 BC, 410/09 BC.

Secondary sources

  • The Athenian Tribute Lists by Benjamin D. Meritt, H. T. Wade-Gery, Malcolm F. McGregor
  • The Athenian Empire Restored: Epigraphic and Historical Studies by Harold B Mattingly, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor,
  • The power of money: coinage and politics in the Athenian Empire by Thomas J. Figueira
  • Epigraphic geography: the tribute quota fragments assigned to 421/0-415/4 B.C by Lisa Kallet
  • Charles F. Edson, Notes of the Thracian phoros, CP 42
  • Thrace by Anna Avramea, Greece. Genikē Grammateia Periphereias Anat. Makedonias-Thrakēs Page 107
  • Mogens Herman Hansen and Thomas Heine Nielsen, An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis
  • G. Pisani, Le liste dei tributi degli alleati di Atene , Padova 1974, pp. 1–91