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The Fate of the Lawgiver. The invention of the Reforms of Ephialtes and the Patrios Politeia
Full text linkA revised analysis of the tradition about the ‘reforms of Ephialtes’ in Athens (ca. 461 B.C.), focusing on the many inconsistencies regarding their contents, author, and context. The paper argues that the reforms as we know them were invented, essentially, by a fourth-century tradition that belongs to the history of ideas and to the biased debate about the democracy, rather than to constitutional history. While the reforms cannot be regarded as a pivotal enactment and cannot contribute to reconstructing the historical phases of the Athenian constitution, they shed light on how the ongoing criticism of the democracy retrospectively shaped the portrayal of the Athenian past
What’s love got to do with it? Eros, democracy, and Pericles’ rhetoric
Full text linkPericles’ metaphor in the funeral oration, that the Athenians should become erastai of the city, would have been original and striking to his audience, as the connotations of eros in politics had normally been divisive and pejorative
War and Democracy in Classical Athens - (D.M.) Pritchard Athenian Democracy at War
Full text linkRecensione di: PRITCHARD (D.M.) Athenian Democracy at War. Pp. xxiv + 287, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019
The Lame Hegemony. Cimon of Athens and the Failure of Panhellenism, ca. 478-450 BC
No full textAn in-depth study and reconsideration of early 5th-century BC Greek history. Focusing on Athens in the aftermath of the second Persian invasion, it reconstructs the chronology, events, and context of the first half of this century, through the figure of the prominent Athenian politician and general Cimon, son of Miltiades. By peeling away a complex of layered traditions, biased by cultural stereotypes and later perspectives, this monograph questions traditional approaches to the 5th century BC, opening new ways to address and interpret Classical Greek history
Review: PARMEGGIANI (G.) Eforo di Cuma. Studi di storiografia greca (Studi di Storia 14). Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2011. Pp. 805. €66. 9788855531108.
No full textReview of the monograph. It highlights the important contents and methodological achievements of the study, especially in regard to 4th-century Greek tradition and its retrospective views on past events
“Aristarchos of Elis (BNJ2 412)”, in I. Worthington (ed.). Jacoby Online. Brill's New Jacoby – 2nd Edition, Part II, Brill, Leiden (2023)
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Fotografie di antichità classiche dagli Archivi del Museo Benaki di Atene (1880-1930) - mostra fotografica: Ravenna, Palazzo dei Congressi, 18-30 maggio 2009
No full textmostra di numerose fotografie d'epoca (ca. 1880-1930), in massima parte inedite, relative a monumenti e siti archeologici classici di Atene e vari altri luoghi in Grecia; una sezione è dedicata alla documentazione originale relativa alle 'Feste delfiche' (1927 e 1930) organizzate da A. Sikelianos ed E. Palmer nel sito di Delfi
Xenophon’s Hybris: Leadership, Violence and the Normative Use of Shame in Anabasis 5.8
Full text linkThrough a detailed analysis of Xenophon’s defence against a charge for hybris among the Ten Thousand, this paper discusses violence, reputation, and hierarchy in Greek military and social contexts. Contrary to other recent treatments of the episode, the study highlights the centrality of honour/shame dynamics and desert in establishing and upholding social order, showing that these notions are found consistently in numerous examples as early as Homer. Addressing the apparent lack of strict discipline in Greek armies, the paper concludes that shame and peer-pressure had a strong normative power in acknowledging and reconciling personal claims and common interests within a group
La battaglia all'Eurimedonte in Diodoro e Plutarco: ricezione, modello e frammenti ‘cumulativi’ di storiografia di IV secolo
No full textDiodorus and Plutarch provide completely different accounts of the battle at the Eurymedon (ca. 466 b.C.). Diodorus’ version, traditionally regarded as historically unreliable, possesses a literary and inherent logic. Plutarch’s detailed account preserves entwined fragments of various 4th century BC authors: rather than trying to unravel and isolate each one, they may be seen as a case of ‘cumulative’, clustered fragment embedded in Plutarch’s narrative. Plutarch may have mainly relied on Callisthenes’ account which, contrary to Jacoby’s proposal, probably came from the work titled Deeds of Alexander. Both Diodorus’ text and the fragmentary authors preserved by Plutarch are part of a long-standing tradition which begins in the 4th century – with a surge at the time of Alexander – and regards the Persian wars, and especially the battle at the Eurymedon, as a model and ideological repository
Erodoto e le donne. La presenza femminile nelle Storie
No full textElena partì da Sparta con i Troiani ma, forse, fu una fuga volontaria più che un rapimento. La regina di Lidia, disonorata dal marito, congegnò una vendetta esemplare e teatrale. L’etera Rodopi, in origine una schiava, divenne una figura leggendaria grazie alla fama e a un monumento eccezionali. L’uomo più potente al mondo, il Gran Re persiano Serse, rischiò la rovina per via della rivalità tra donne di corte. In Grecia i Persiani furono sconfitti, ma la straordinaria Artemisia, unica donna tra le loro fila, uscì vincitrice su tutti. A guardar bene, poi, la vittoria dei Greci fu dovuta anche a una bambina prodigio, Gorgo. E così via. Attraverso figure femminili ordinarie o eccezionali, le Storie di Erodoto indagano gli aspetti più profondi della natura umana, costruiscono un universo complesso e sfaccettato, insinuano il dubbio sul senso delle grandi guerre e sulle gesta dei grandi uomini. Di volta in volta con sottigliezza, ironia, tragica consapevolezza e incredibile modernità. Prima monografia sul tema, il volume analizza la narrazione del “padre della Storia” sul femminile e ripensa gli stereotipi sulla misoginia degli antichi Greci
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