The Battle of Pallènè Revisited, or How Peisistratos Got Caught in Andocides’s Historical Analogicism
Larran, Francis
The Battle of Pallènè Revisited, or How Peisistratos Got Caught in Andocides’s Historical Analogicism - 2014.
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Andocides (I: 106) moved the victory of Peisistratos at Pallènè up in time in order to make it coincide with the archè of Athenian democracy (510 BC). This deliberate anachronism should be understood by reference to the historical context of Andocides’s trial. In a city going through a painful reconstruction process after the Peloponnesian War, this chronological manipulation allowed the civic reinstatement of Andocides by reconciling oligarchic and democratic readings of the Athenian past.
The Battle of Pallènè Revisited, or How Peisistratos Got Caught in Andocides’s Historical Analogicism - 2014.
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Andocides (I: 106) moved the victory of Peisistratos at Pallènè up in time in order to make it coincide with the archè of Athenian democracy (510 BC). This deliberate anachronism should be understood by reference to the historical context of Andocides’s trial. In a city going through a painful reconstruction process after the Peloponnesian War, this chronological manipulation allowed the civic reinstatement of Andocides by reconciling oligarchic and democratic readings of the Athenian past.
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