Politics and Challenge

Euripides’ Ion was performed in 409 B.C. in order to strengthen the case for Alcibiades’ return from exile. There is a considerable overlap between the anecdotal tradition relating to Alcibiades, Pericles, and Aspasia and the characterization of Ion, Xuthus, and Creusa. Euripides puts across a pro-Alcibiadean message, excusing Alcibiades’ faults, both major and minor, rebutting charges that Alcibiades was of servile origin, promoting his religious policy, and providing him with a fresh genealogy to replace his supposed physical descent from Ajax. The case seems to be confirmed by details in Aristophanes’ Plutus , where the first person encountered on leaving Apollo’s temple also possesses Alcibiadean characteristics

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• Stylistic characterization in Thucydides

  Open Access•Daniel P Tompkins•Studies in Fifth Century Thought…•1972

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• The Homeric hymn to Demeter

  N J Richardson•The Homeric hymn to Demeter•1974

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• A Selection of Greek historical inscriptions to the end of the fifth century B.C.

  David M Lewis, Russell Meiggs•A Selection of Greek historical…•1988

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• Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens

  Open Access•Rosalind Thomas•Oral Tradition and Written Record…•1989

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• The Political Plays of Euripides

  Van L Johnson, Gunther Zuntz•The Classical Weekly•1955

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• From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law

  Martin Ostwald•From Popular Sovereignty to the…•1986

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• From Pella to Gandhara

  Anna Kouremenos, Sujatha Chandrasekaran et al.•From Pella to Gandhara•2011

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• War, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' Athens

  Open Access•Peter Hunt•War, Peace, and Alliance in…•2010

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• Athenian Officials 684—321 B.C

  Robert Develin•Athenian Officials 684-321 BC•1989

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• Plutarch on the childhood of Alkibiades ( Alk. 2–3)

  Open Access•Timothy E Duff•Proceedings of the Cambridge…•2003

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• On the Date of Euripides' Ion

  Open Access•Günther Martins, Gunther Martin•The Classical Quarterly•2010

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• Did the Greek ear detect ‘careless’ verbal repetitions

  Open Access•P E Pickering, Peter Pickering•The Classical Quarterly•2003

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• Pericles on Stage

  Mark William Padilla, Michael Vickers•The Classical World•1998

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• Brachylogia Laconica

  Open Access•E D Francis, Emmanuel Francis•Bulletin of the Institute of…•1993

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• Physical Contact in Greek Tragedy

  Stephen Scully, Maarit Kaimio•The Classical World•1991

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• Aristophanes and Athens

  Matthew P Benjamin, Douglas M Macdowell•The Classical World•1998

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• Koisyra

  T Leslie Shear•Phoenix•1963

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