This paper examines the ritual ceremony by which the Agiad king Pleistoanax was recalled to Sparta, in 427 or 426 b.c., after a long exile. Thucydides observes that the king was welcomed back by the Spartans “with the same dances and sacrifices as when they first enthroned their kings when Sparta was founded”. It is argued that the circles close to the Agiad king equated in this way the return of Pleistoanax to the most famous kathodos of Spartan history, namely, the return of the Herakleids.
Il ritorno del re. Una nota sulla seconda ascesa al trono di Pleistoanatte (Thuc. 5, 16)
LUPI, Marcello
2015
Abstract
This paper examines the ritual ceremony by which the Agiad king Pleistoanax was recalled to Sparta, in 427 or 426 b.c., after a long exile. Thucydides observes that the king was welcomed back by the Spartans “with the same dances and sacrifices as when they first enthroned their kings when Sparta was founded”. It is argued that the circles close to the Agiad king equated in this way the return of Pleistoanax to the most famous kathodos of Spartan history, namely, the return of the Herakleids.File in questo prodotto:
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