International audienceEupatridai have often been conceived as a gentilician group, whether as the whole Athenian nobility or as a cast-like genos. However, close examination of all occurrences shows that the word does not appear before the end of the 6th century and that 95 % of them actually come from much later litterature. Moreover, the first occurrences clearly indicate that besides the praise of fathers there is also a clear anti-tyrannical connotation implying the preservation of the patris. Indeed, all individually known Eupatridai of the 5th and 4th centuries have ancestors involved in the strike against Peisistratos. Classical theatre and political thought explain how this concept evolved to a generic nobility wiping out its contex...
International audienceAccording to Plutarch, the young Alcibiades would have refused to play the aul...
Abstract : Historians rarely use the European concept of « nobility » to describe the upper strata o...
International audienceM. Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messallinus came from one of the most prestigious fa...
International audienceEupatridai have often been conceived as a gentilician group, whether as the wh...
Eupatridai have often been conceived as a gentilician group, whether as the whole Athenian nobility ...
International audienceThe ruling elite and Archaic nobility of Athens is often designated by ancient...
This article aims at exploring the relationship between Athens and the members of the Miltiades and ...
The terminology of personal power in Aristophanes’ plays presents two different uses depending on wh...
Power or exclusive noble rights: the Venetian patriciate and the aggregation of new families in the ...
Power in Venice was synonymous with noble status. The Venetian patriciate, the long-time ruling elit...
Political and religious exclusivity of Eupatrids in Archaic Athens. The Eupatrids are a group of ari...
“Nobility of the Robe” and “Nobility of the Sword,” two expressions commonly repeated in historiogra...
International audienceAs an analytical and historical concept, aristocracy has long been defined as ...
The hellenistic East has promoted an office’s nobility, defined by the exercise of court’s offices, ...
Après une période d'effacement, la noblesse retrouva considération et influence dans la France bourg...
International audienceAccording to Plutarch, the young Alcibiades would have refused to play the aul...
Abstract : Historians rarely use the European concept of « nobility » to describe the upper strata o...
International audienceM. Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messallinus came from one of the most prestigious fa...
International audienceEupatridai have often been conceived as a gentilician group, whether as the wh...
Eupatridai have often been conceived as a gentilician group, whether as the whole Athenian nobility ...
International audienceThe ruling elite and Archaic nobility of Athens is often designated by ancient...
This article aims at exploring the relationship between Athens and the members of the Miltiades and ...
The terminology of personal power in Aristophanes’ plays presents two different uses depending on wh...
Power or exclusive noble rights: the Venetian patriciate and the aggregation of new families in the ...
Power in Venice was synonymous with noble status. The Venetian patriciate, the long-time ruling elit...
Political and religious exclusivity of Eupatrids in Archaic Athens. The Eupatrids are a group of ari...
“Nobility of the Robe” and “Nobility of the Sword,” two expressions commonly repeated in historiogra...
International audienceAs an analytical and historical concept, aristocracy has long been defined as ...
The hellenistic East has promoted an office’s nobility, defined by the exercise of court’s offices, ...
Après une période d'effacement, la noblesse retrouva considération et influence dans la France bourg...
International audienceAccording to Plutarch, the young Alcibiades would have refused to play the aul...
Abstract : Historians rarely use the European concept of « nobility » to describe the upper strata o...
International audienceM. Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messallinus came from one of the most prestigious fa...