Abstract
[Machine translation] A famous passage from the Wasps (v. 946) by Aristophanes mentions a Thucydides who would have suddenly remained silent when he delivered his defense speech during a trial that would have seen him as a defendant. In modern historiography, this character is unanimously identified with Thucydides of Melesia, but various arguments suggest, however, to exclude this identification and rather to see in this character the historian Thucydides, who was put on trial after the failure of the rescue in Amphipolis in 424 and sentenced to twenty years of exile.
| Translated title of the contribution | [Machine translation] A testimony about the trial of the historian Thucydides in Aristophanes' Wasps? |
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| Original language | Italian |
| Pages (from-to) | 45-58 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | POLITICA ANTICA |
| Volume | 15 |
| Publication status | Published - 2025 |
Keywords
- Tucidide
- Tucidide di Melesia
- Aristofane
- Vespe
- Anfipoli
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