It may seem somewhat odd to study the way by which the defeat of Aigos-Potamoi is described in a discourse which is an utter praise of the excellence of Athens as is the Panathenaic Oration of Aelius Aristides. Nevertheless, the account of this event (§ 252-263) is significant. Thanks to two successive rhetorical stratagems (move to the Thirty episode and comparison with Marathon), the battle of Aigos-Potamoi is concealed as a defeat and changed into victory. Besides, this defeat is both anticipated and extended through the oration. Upstream, it makes clear a special feature in the discourse’s organisation (the reason why Aristides chooses a comparative point of view, which suddenly breaks the narrative) ; downstream, Athens’ defeat and sur...
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International audienceIt may seem somewhat odd to study the way by which the defeat of Aigos-Potamoi...
International audienceStarting from the prologue of the Panathenaic Oration - where Ælius Aristides ...
International audienceStarting from the prologue of the Panathenaic Oration - where Ælius Aristides ...
The words of defeat are divided between Trojans and Achaeans depending on the hazards of war. That i...
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We may evoke the strange defeat of the stronger party only if we suppose that the Peloponnesian War ...
International audienceDifferent stories preserved in the Battle of Ausculum (279 BC) have a paradox....
The destruction of the cities of the defeated together with the disappearance of the polis as a terr...
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The paper considers the Athenians’ reaction to the battle of Chaeronea in 338 B.C. as reflected in t...
Ce travail a interrogé les relations entre la victoire, la récompense et le vainqueur, dans les conc...
In 166 B. C., Antiochus IV Epiphanes organised important Panhellenic festivities in Daphne, near Ant...
The paper considers the Athenians’ reaction to the battle of Chaeronea in 338 B.C. as reflected in t...
International audienceIt may seem somewhat odd to study the way by which the defeat of Aigos-Potamoi...
International audienceStarting from the prologue of the Panathenaic Oration - where Ælius Aristides ...
International audienceStarting from the prologue of the Panathenaic Oration - where Ælius Aristides ...
The words of defeat are divided between Trojans and Achaeans depending on the hazards of war. That i...
Un examen attentif de la déclamation VII d’Ælius Aristide (Sur la paix avec les Lacédémoniens, disco...
International audienceLa coexistence des éloges de deux cités aussi différentes qu’Athènes et Rome d...
We may evoke the strange defeat of the stronger party only if we suppose that the Peloponnesian War ...
International audienceDifferent stories preserved in the Battle of Ausculum (279 BC) have a paradox....
The destruction of the cities of the defeated together with the disappearance of the polis as a terr...
The battle of Pallènè revisited, or how Peisistratos got caught in Andocides’ s historical analogici...
When Livy describes Rome’s wars in Greece at the beginning of the 2nd century B. C., he does so in c...
The paper considers the Athenians’ reaction to the battle of Chaeronea in 338 B.C. as reflected in t...
Ce travail a interrogé les relations entre la victoire, la récompense et le vainqueur, dans les conc...
In 166 B. C., Antiochus IV Epiphanes organised important Panhellenic festivities in Daphne, near Ant...
The paper considers the Athenians’ reaction to the battle of Chaeronea in 338 B.C. as reflected in t...