From Resolving Stasis to Ruling Sicily: A Reading of Herodotus 7.153-167 in an Epinician Context.
When the Greek embassy visits Sicily to convince Gelon to support their cause against the Persian threat, Herodotus begins the Sicilian logos with the story of a man named Telines, an ancestor of the Deinomenid tyrants, Gelon and Hieron. This paper first argues that by resolving the stasis in Gela a...
| Publicado en: | Mnemosyne Vol. 72; no. 5; pp. 717 - 736 |
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