Add to ORKGThis paper examines the ancient Greek tradition about Croesus, the last Lydian king; starting from the artistical (Myson), poetical (Bacchylides) and historical (Herodotus) portraits in the V century BC, it deals with the influence of Herodotus' account on the following tradition, until Byzantine times. The study, pointing at the paradigmatic value of Croesus relationship with the Greek world, aims at clarify why his story was so appalling even for Christian authors and why the more "oriental" and epicoric evidence about him are so scanty
The author analyses Herodotus' choice of his sources in order to strike a balance between two recent...
The biography of Democedes, present in the History of Herodotus, constitutes an essential document t...
In the fifth century, traditional myths about gods and heroes of a remote age still constituted a sh...
In a brief and puzzling section (2.12\u201313) of his monumental History of Armenia, Moses of Khoren...
Herodotus 1.27 knows of a shipbuilding project, planned by Croesus and stopped after a meeting of th...
Herodotus, in the Lydian logos of his first Book, more particularly in the context of the History ab...
Two themes, the elusiveness of wisdom and the distortion of speech, are traced through three importa...
The paper discusses the new ‘Croesus’s dedication’ from Thebes. It argues that we should read this i...
In this paper, we compare the downfall of Herodotus’ Croesus and Sophocles’ Oedipus against four cen...
At a first sight, reading Plutarch’s Life of Solon, the confluence of three kinds of ‘Solon’ raises ...
International audienceThe story of the Cretan seer and poet Epimenides, supposed to have lived for m...
Starting from a puzzling Greek proverb about Croesus, Solon and the novelist Aesop, the article disc...
Two themes, the elusiveness of wisdom and the distortion of speech, are traced through three importa...
Herodotus begins his enquiry (‘historia’) into why Greeks and Persians came into conflict with the f...
Ancient historiography is generally understood as a product of the so called Western world. In this ...
The author analyses Herodotus' choice of his sources in order to strike a balance between two recent...
The biography of Democedes, present in the History of Herodotus, constitutes an essential document t...
In the fifth century, traditional myths about gods and heroes of a remote age still constituted a sh...
In a brief and puzzling section (2.12\u201313) of his monumental History of Armenia, Moses of Khoren...
Herodotus 1.27 knows of a shipbuilding project, planned by Croesus and stopped after a meeting of th...
Herodotus, in the Lydian logos of his first Book, more particularly in the context of the History ab...
Two themes, the elusiveness of wisdom and the distortion of speech, are traced through three importa...
The paper discusses the new ‘Croesus’s dedication’ from Thebes. It argues that we should read this i...
In this paper, we compare the downfall of Herodotus’ Croesus and Sophocles’ Oedipus against four cen...
At a first sight, reading Plutarch’s Life of Solon, the confluence of three kinds of ‘Solon’ raises ...
International audienceThe story of the Cretan seer and poet Epimenides, supposed to have lived for m...
Starting from a puzzling Greek proverb about Croesus, Solon and the novelist Aesop, the article disc...
Two themes, the elusiveness of wisdom and the distortion of speech, are traced through three importa...
Herodotus begins his enquiry (‘historia’) into why Greeks and Persians came into conflict with the f...
Ancient historiography is generally understood as a product of the so called Western world. In this ...
The author analyses Herodotus' choice of his sources in order to strike a balance between two recent...
The biography of Democedes, present in the History of Herodotus, constitutes an essential document t...
In the fifth century, traditional myths about gods and heroes of a remote age still constituted a sh...