"From Homeric Ptochoi to those of the 4th Century : Old and New, Begging and Charity". In this paper the character of the beggar (ptochos) is examined from Homer’ s time to the 4th century B. C. In the Odyssey, the ptochoi represent the worst part of society : they are considered as thetes and potential “unemployed” people, and they are also described as “parasites.” The Athenian dèmos gradually abandoned this conception, in the 5th century B. C. at least, but another period of time comes when the image of the “ parasite” (or perhaps a part of this image, as for the ptochos in 4th-century comedies) reappears with some significance in an environment where poverty is a threat to the less wealthy dèmos. These people experienced situations of d...
Aristophanes’ Plutus paints a black picture of Athenian people, poor or destitute. The poet criticiz...
This volume presents an innovative picture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Approaching poverty a...
This article is about the image of the male prostitute in attic vase painting of the 5th century B.C...
Cette thèse de doctorat porte sur la mendicité et la figure du mendiant dans la littérature grecque,...
Many ancient sources mention beggars and begging. The analysis of these references, scattered in tex...
Constituant une partie non négligeable de la population des cités grecques antiques, les pauvres res...
Slavery as a factor of corruption in Hellenistic culture historiography: hybris, tryphé and stoic mo...
Concerning wealth and poverty, the study of ploutos and penia, of their attributes and images, and o...
This article examines the ways in which poverty, as a condition, and as represented by poor individu...
"Between the “ Idle Mob” and the “ Economic Exploitation” : Poor Citizens in the Athenian Democracy....
Cette étude met en rapport ce que les Grecs de l'époque classique ont écrit sur les monstres réels o...
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The situation after the Peloponnesian war in Athens, after the loss of the War and of the Empire, is...
L’abandon de l’enfant se présente sous deux jours contraires : récurrent dans la mythologie et la li...
This article traces the genealogy of the conception of poverty as lack, in the philosophical and pol...
Aristophanes’ Plutus paints a black picture of Athenian people, poor or destitute. The poet criticiz...
This volume presents an innovative picture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Approaching poverty a...
This article is about the image of the male prostitute in attic vase painting of the 5th century B.C...
Cette thèse de doctorat porte sur la mendicité et la figure du mendiant dans la littérature grecque,...
Many ancient sources mention beggars and begging. The analysis of these references, scattered in tex...
Constituant une partie non négligeable de la population des cités grecques antiques, les pauvres res...
Slavery as a factor of corruption in Hellenistic culture historiography: hybris, tryphé and stoic mo...
Concerning wealth and poverty, the study of ploutos and penia, of their attributes and images, and o...
This article examines the ways in which poverty, as a condition, and as represented by poor individu...
"Between the “ Idle Mob” and the “ Economic Exploitation” : Poor Citizens in the Athenian Democracy....
Cette étude met en rapport ce que les Grecs de l'époque classique ont écrit sur les monstres réels o...
©2024. The authors. This document is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creati...
The situation after the Peloponnesian war in Athens, after the loss of the War and of the Empire, is...
L’abandon de l’enfant se présente sous deux jours contraires : récurrent dans la mythologie et la li...
This article traces the genealogy of the conception of poverty as lack, in the philosophical and pol...
Aristophanes’ Plutus paints a black picture of Athenian people, poor or destitute. The poet criticiz...
This volume presents an innovative picture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Approaching poverty a...
This article is about the image of the male prostitute in attic vase painting of the 5th century B.C...