Cléon. Le guerrier d’Athéna
| dc.contributor.author | Lafargue, Philippe | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-03T14:39:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-07-03T14:39:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.identifier | ONIX_20250703T162151_9782356136411_7 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/161964 | |
| dc.language | French | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Scripta Antiqua | |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history | |
| dc.subject.other | Cléon | |
| dc.subject.other | Périclès | |
| dc.subject.other | Nicias | |
| dc.subject.other | démocratie radicale | |
| dc.subject.other | démagogues | |
| dc.subject.other | élites politiques | |
| dc.subject.other | guerre du Péloponnèse | |
| dc.subject.other | impérialisme athénien | |
| dc.subject.other | Thucydide | |
| dc.subject.other | Aristophane | |
| dc.title | Cléon. Le guerrier d’Athéna | |
| dc.type | book | |
| oapen.abstract.otherlanguage | Cleon held the political scene of Athens after Pericles's death, during the first years of the Peloponnesian War. Ruling a city endangered byfnvasion, victorious of the best spartan soldiers at Pylos in 425 B.C., killed in actidn a few years later, Cleon didn't know posterity of his renowned predecessor though. On the contrary, a real 'black legend' was established around him which wentthrough the ages: contemporary authorities like Thucydides or Aristophanes and also later writers -Ancients like Moderns- introduced him as a corrupt, venal and coarse character, as a demagogue who skilfully flattered the people and who was in favour of an immoderate imperialism and excessive war. This book intends to re-evaluate Cleon's political work, especially compared with Pericles's, whose ambitions hardly differed: preservation of the empire -and not extension of it-, reinforcement of democratic rights set up during the former period -and not political 'radicalization'-, continuation of the war according to Pericles's strategy and aims - and not exaggerated warmongering. In this work, ideological or moral bias, often conveyed by ancient sources, has been left aside and the specific context of Athens (which was involved in a terrible war to protect its imperial and democratic integrity at the end of the fifth century B.C.) has been reconstructed, which allows us to consider Cleon as a Jess dark historie character than what tradition passed on. | |
| oapen.identifier.doi | 10.4000/13wem | |
| oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | bfc06fa5-0f79-4168-bed3-99215f2f51e2 | |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9782356136411 | |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9782356130846 | |
| oapen.pages | 354 | |
| oapen.place.publication | Pessac |
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