Article(electronic)November 11, 2017

Democratic Paideia in Aeschylus' Suppliants

In: Polis: the journal for ancient greek political thought, Volume 34, Issue 2, p. 251-272

Pattoni, Maria Pia

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Abstract

Abstract
The analysis of political language in Aeschylus' Suppliants confirms the hypothesis that the form of government here represented is strongly influenced by contemporary Athens: prehistoric Argos turns out to be a sort of mirror of democratic Athens. It is no coincidence that the sequence running from the entrance of Pelasgus at l. 234 to the Danaids' song of benediction (ll. 625-709) presents a dramatic pattern similar in several respects to that underlying in Eumenides 397-1002 (the scenes between the entrance of Athena and the Chorus' prayer of blessing). Pelasgus (likewise Athena in Eumenides) imparts a sort of lesson on 'democratic paideia' to the Danaids, in view of their integration as metoikoi in the institutional structures of the polis.

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Brill

ISSN: 2051-2996

DOI

10.1163/20512996-12340126

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