His revisionist understand- ing--that the law did not (as the orthodox interpretation claims) ban the allies of Athens from using their own coins, weights, and measures, but only required that they accept Ath- ens's--has been both embraced (Evans 2001) and derided (Mattingly 1999;
2001) with a vehemence that the intricacies of epigraphy seem especially to provoke.
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