ABSTRACT
The campaigning season of 424 opened with an attack by Mytilenean exiles on Rhoiteion, in the Hellespont, and on Antandros. They had hired mercenaries from the Peloponnese, which again shows how easy it was to circumvent Athenian sea power. Rhoiteion they simply ransomed, possibly for a sum equivalent to the tribute the place normally paid to Athens – it has even been suggested that the attack was timed to coincide with the collection of tribute.1
