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Crises (Staseis) and Changes (Metabolai) : Athenian Democracy in the Making

AD1E-6981-409A | Delfim Ferreira Leão; N/A

Leaderships and crises of ancient democracy in Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon ...

The text examines passages taken from the aforementioned historians in an attempt to understand, on the one hand, how fragile a democracy may become, as a result of collective choice and action, and, on the other, how resilient it may prove to be when leaderships do everything to destroy it, to the point of bolstering forces that would eventually restore or reinforce it, after having brought it down temporarily...

Crises e mudanças na democracia ateniense: A atuação de Terâmenes entre oportun...

Este texto examina a atuação política do ateniense Terâmenes conforme narrada por Tucídides, Xenofonte, Lísias e pela Constituição dos Atenienses atribuída a Aristóteles, a fim de mapear as linhas- -mestras que convergiram para tornar Terâmenes paradigmático para o pensamento político grego antigo. As quatro fontes foram selecionadas por serem as cronologicamente mais próximas da personagem dentre as supérstite...

Isonomia, demokratia y enfoque enactivo en Heródoto

Following the path of Popova’s (2015) enactive approach to narrative, this inquiry focuses on two clusters of metaphors around which Herodo- tus organized his perceptions about isonomia and demokratia: the cognitive and the pragmatic. In- stead of highlighting differences between isonomia and demokratia, we wish to evince cumulative in- teractions between both concepts, a process that allows us to make sense of...

Paradoxes of truth and limits of a democracy. Nicias vs. Alcibiades in Th. 6.8-26

From the indication of unpredictable aitíai that could result in katálysis of a democracy, the sequence of this text is subdivided in three other sections: in the second, the arguments of Nicias and Alcibiades in the antilogy recreated in Th. 6.8-26 are discussed. In the third, the question of the operational limits of Athenian democracy directly affected by that antilogy is discussed. In the final part, contem...

Fiction and truth in Herodotus and Thucydides

This paper discusses the delimitation of fiction and truth respectively in the narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides, thus tackling the aspect each historian most deeply concentrated on. By means of a comparative and historiographic‐literary approach, the paper aims at examining the ambiguous zone of collaboration and dispute between both aspects in those narratives.; Este artículo discute la delimitación de f...

A Poiesis da Democracia

SOARES, M. T. M. – História e ficção em Paul Ricœur e Tucídides. Coimbra: IUC, ...

Apontamentos para uma poética da tradução de historiadores gregos

Outlines for translations' poetics of Greek historians

This paper has two sections. The first discusses some theoretical assumptions that guide my practice in translating Greek historians. In the second one, I present specific examples of translations (paragraphs from Herodotus, Thucydides and Polybius) which briefly indicate the realization of such assumptions.; O artigo se estrutura em duas seções: na primeira, discuto premissas teóricas que orientam minha prátic...