Bringing Autochthony Up-to-Date

Herodotus and Thucydides

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3300686
AutoresChristopher Pelling (autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume102
Fascículo4
Páginas471-483
Data de publicação2009-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Classical World (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0009-8418 • E-ISSN: 1558-9234
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/clw.0.0125
OpenAlexW2007597258
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas27
Referências citadas14

This paper explores the exploitation of autochthony topoi in Herodotus and Thucydides. Autochthony-thinking was so familiar to the historians' audiences that such allusions could be implicit, and the word itself is often not used. Both historians develop the themes thought-provokingly and paradoxically: for instance, in Thucydides' case in broadening the horizons so much that the land of Attica may be regarded as a dispensable "little garden," yet the failures in distant Sicily come back to endanger that homeland; in Herodotus, in allowing the Athenians to show that love by being prepared to abandon that land to the invader

Aesthetics · Art · Homeland · Literature · Political science · Politics · Topos theory · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law