L'autochtonie : une topique athénienne. Le mythe dans l'espace civique

Autochtone an athenian topic The myth in the civic space Nicole LORAUX To study myth its civic anchorage does not correspond to considering it as mere instrument at the disposal of political manipulations but implies also an attentive examination of the work it operates on the expression even at certain distance from its own location For myth inscribed in given civic space is worded in different language according to whether it is evoked on the Acropolis at the Ceramica or in the Agora Nevertheless it is always its voice that is heard even within the most secularized formulations such as that of the topos of autochtony in funeral oration Thus on the sacred hill of the Acropolis and in the national cemetary of Ceramica the myth of autochtony presents two models of identity conception of the Athenian city. assembly collective community for religious celebration around the hero-founder Erichthonios an original unit without the mediation of the autochtones polis but the political transparency of prose expression does not exclude the meaning and in the funeral oration autochtony is voiced as in the Panathenae in language of kinshipLoraux Nicole. L'autochtonie : une topique athénienne. Le mythe dans l'espace civique. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 34ᵉ année, N. 1, 1979. pp. 3-26