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100 1 0 _aQueyrel Bottineau, Anne
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245 0 0 _aThe Dynamics of Memory in Demosthenian Rhetoric in the mid-4th Century. How to Advise Athenians to Become Themselves Again
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520 _aThe middle of the fourth century was marked by the war between Athens and the most powerful cities of the Second Athenian Confederacy and by the rapid rise of Philip II of Macedon. On the basis of speeches written between 356 and 348, this paper studies how Athenians were advising their fellow citizens to adapt to these new challenges during a time when their hegemonic relationships with other political entities were called into question. I will consider in particular, in the line of argument of Demosthenes, the exhortation to a type of behavior based on virtues that Athenians had traditionally assigned to themselves since the Medic Wars: prothumia, eunoia, megalopsuchia. By turning the memory of the city into a means of action, Demosthenes as adviser aimed to inspire a dynamic politics of identity within the sovereign demos of Athens, which would allow Athenians, by “taking their examples from their home turf,” to fully realize what he considered to be their calling ( Third Olynthiac, 23).
690 _aMegalopsuchia
690 _aEunoia
690 _aCourage
690 _aDynamic Politics of Identity
690 _aDesertion
690 _aHerodotus
690 _aShame
690 _aIsocrates
690 _aProthumia
690 _aPast
690 _aResponsibility
690 _aDemosthenes
690 _aThucydides
690 _aMemory
690 _aIdentity
690 _aHegemony
690 _aCharacter
786 0 _nDialogues d’histoire ancienne | S 17 | S17 | 2017-12-06 | p. 319-355 | 0755-7256
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-dialogues-d-histoire-ancienne-2017-S17-page-319?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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