Gli Eroi Eponimi nell’epitaffio demostenico
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https://doi.org/10.13135/2039-4985/4171Abstract
Lo studio prende in esame il ruolo e l’importanza degli Eroi Eponimi delle dieci tribù attiche all’indomani della disfatta degli Ateniesi a Cheronea nel 338 a.C., soprattutto alla luce della relazione tra l’excursus su queste figure ancestrali, presente all’interno dell’epitaffio demostenico per i caduti in guerra, e la ricostruzione del monumento a essi dedicato nel cuore dell’agora ateniese durante l’epoca licurghea. Dall’analisi dell’orazione funeraria e da alcune riflessioni sull’ideologia licurghea si può evincere come, all’indomani di Cheronea, la polis attica cerchi di ricompattare la propria memoria e tradizione democratica anche tramite il revival degli Eponimi, figure fondanti della vita politica ateniese.
This paper deals with the role and the importance of the Eponymous Heroes of the ten Attic tribes in the aftermath of the Athenian defeat at Chaeronea in 338 B.C. The present investigation focuses on the relation between the excursus about these ancestral figures, present in the Demosthenic epitaph dedicated to the war dead, and the reconstruction of the monument devoted to them in the hearth of the Athenian agora during the Lycurgan era. From the analysis of the funerary oration and other reflections about the Lycurgan ideology, it can be seen how, in the aftermath of Chaeronea, the Attic polis tries to reconstruct its own memory and democratic tradition, also through the revival of the Eponymous Heroes, fundamental figures of the Athenian political life.
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