Die Methode der Atthidographen. Die Kleidemos-Fragmente in der Theseus-Vita des Plutarch

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ID10288795
AuthorsCharlotte Schubert (0000-0002-3132-8231, Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Historisches Seminar, Universität LeipzigBeethovenstr.15, 04107 LeipzigDeutschland, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume67
Issue6
Pages930-952
Publication date2014-11-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMnemosyne (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-7074 • E-ISSN: 1568-525X
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/1568525x-12341356
OpenAlexW2012940633
LanguageDE
References cited8

In the Life of Theseus Plutarch cites long passages from the Atthis of Cleidemus. These passages can exemplify the relationship between myth, fiction and historiography in the Atthides . The initial hypothesis of the present study was that the works of the Atthidographers may demonstrate a historical method, which gains its coherence from the description of cause and effect, the causal sequence of events and the chronological arrangement. This runs counter to the current opinion, which classifies the method of the Atthidographers as pseudohistorical or paradoxographical. This opinion is based on the fact that many, and to the last detail embellished, myths characterise the representations of Athenian history especially in the Atthis of Cleidemus. But if one compares the fragments of Cleidemus in Plutach’s Theseus-Vita with other fragments of Cleidemus (FGrH No. 323 F8 on the naucraries and FGrH No. 323 F21 on Themistocles), one can see that at least Cleidemus practiced in his Atthis an integration of myth and political history, that shows a consciously reflected methodological claim to historiography

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