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100 1 0 _aGuelfucci, Marie-Rose
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245 0 0 _aDiplomatic Discourse and the 432 BC Athenian Embassy to Sparta (Thucydides, I, 72-78)
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520 _aThe Athenian embassy during the Spartan debate in 432 was exceptional and raised numerous questions on its reality, the distortion between its presentation and the speech as given as well as the tone and contents of it. Starting from Thucydides’ choice of certain words, this paper discusses the presence and strategies of an essentially ambiguous diplomatic discourse, at once respectful of a certain formality and exploiting a deliberately coded polysemy: who were those ambassadors? Why give two versions of their intervention? Beyond their stated discourse, what was the alternative discourse? In what respect do Archidamos and Sthenelaidas, Sparta’s two opposing voices, respond with such precision to the former or/and the latter?
690 _aDouble Speech
690 _aSthenelaidas
690 _aWriting of History
690 _aCorinth
690 _aThucydides
690 _aSpartan Debate
690 _aArchidamos
690 _aAmbassadors
690 _aDiplomacy
786 0 _nDialogues d’histoire ancienne | S 17 | S17 | 2017-12-06 | p. 745-770 | 0755-7256
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-dialogues-d-histoire-ancienne-2017-S17-page-745?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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