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CECCHET L (2019). Recensione di Taylor, C. Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being. Experiencing Penia in Democratic Athens, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2017.
No full textBetween Native and Acquired Citizenship. The Discourse of Multiple Citizenship in Dio Chrysostom’s Bithynian Speeches
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The Dark Side of War: War Wounded and Dissenters in the Athenian Theatre of the Late 5Th Century
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Poverty, Wealth, and Social Mobility : The Cases of Megara and Athens
No full textThis chapter discusses the bond between wealth, high birth, and political power attested in the Homeric poems. The following discussion will bring us to see how this bond came to be challenged in the Archaic Period, based on the case of Megara. In fact, an elite group is internally diverse, and the criteria for defining membership must be constantly reaffirmed, renegotiated, and performed, namely publicly demonstrated to the community. From this perspective, lineage and high birth are only two of the criteria that define elite status, but they are not the only, nor universal, criteria. Whereas, in the Homeric epics, the world of the poleis is only foreshadowed, in the corpus of elegies known as the Theognidea, the polis is the socio-political background in which the community of the aristocrats gathers, and where their symposia take place. The traditional interpretation understands them as referring, respectively, to the members of the aristocratic milieu and the ordinary people
Multiple Greek Citizenships in the imperial age. Aspects of communication between speaker and audience in Dio Chrysostom
Full text linkThis paper discusses the question of multiple Greek citizenships in the imperial age by taking, as a case study, selected passages from the Bithynian orations of Dio Chrysostom. These passages shed light on the public and institutional settings and contexts in which acquired citizenships, far from being perceived simply as honorific titles, caused difficulties and set limits and challenges for their holders: the case of Dio and his sophisticated attempts to “juggle” before the assemblies and councils of Bithynian cities, (often rival cities), is a clear example of this.Il presente contributo intende discutere la questione delle cittadinanze greche multiple in età imperiale analizzandonalcuni passi delle orazioni bitiniche di Dione di Prusa. Si tratta di passi che mettono bene in luce le modalità e i contesti pubblici e istituzionali nei quali le cittadinanze acquisite, lungi dall’essere percepite semplicemente come titoli onorifici, ponevano difficoltà, limiti e sfide concrete per i loro titolari: il caso di Dione e dei suoi sofisticati tentativi di destreggiarsi davanti alle assemblee e ai consigli di città bitiniche spesso rivali tra loro ne è un chiaro esempio
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