ABSTRACT
In another Festschrift due to appear at about the same time as this one, Christopher Pelling, in a paper on Thucydides' Archidamus and Herodotus' Artabanus, examines an aspect of Thucydides' relation to Herodotus. 1 I wish to look at another, more strictly factual, aspect of that relationship. Many texts I shall be considering have a Spartan aspect, and this, I hope, makes it appropriate to explore the topic in a collection of Laconian studies in honour of Hector Catling. 2
