Catalogo
05. The Lame Hegemony - Bologna University Press
Collana
DISCI - Storia Antica, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà - DiSCi
05. The Lame Hegemony
Cimon of Athens and the Failure of Panhellenism, ca. 478-450 BC
di Matteo Zaccarini
This work presents an 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. The study deals with themes of politics, economy, religion, military and social issues, and reception. The near-complete absence of contemporary sources means that the analysis is based mainly on later traditions. This study argues that present scholarship needs to be revised in favour of source criticism that reinterprets the surviving evidence, by setting it against its own contemporary context and by highlighting divergences among the sources. The ancient tradition has reshaped and reinvented the memory of the period under study along with that of…
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Disciplina
Storia
Argomento
Storia antica
Formato
170 × 240 mm
Pagine
408
Anno
2017
Confezione
Brossura
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN
9788869232411
ISBN online
9788869235351