Franca Landucci Gattinoni

Politica e ideologia in età ellenistica

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Keywords

  • It is particularly hard for modern scholars to define the political traits of the Hellenistic monarchies. In all cases
  • however
  • debate springs from the analysis of Polybius's Histories
  • the only historiographic work of the Hellenistic age that has
  • at least partially
  • survived. With the work of Polybius
  • a new political "vocabulary" emerges
  • used both by those who
  • like Polybius himself
  • denigrate the monarchy
  • and by those who
  • like the authors of the treatises On Royalty
  • glorify it. The Hellenistic rulers are "warlords": with their "Friends"
  • they exert "not accountable sovereignty"
  • they dominate a "spear-won land"
  • yet
  • at the same time
  • they are also "benefactors" who use their immense power as a "glorious servitude" in favour of their subjects

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