This paper discusses evidence on one of the archaeological ghosts of the classical Athenian agora: the Stoa of the Herms. Traditionally, modern scholarship associates the stoa and its herms with Cimon, son of Miltiades, and employs relevant sources to postulate a complex, related Athenian celebration and contemporary reception of the monument. The paper shows that this association was likely invented by a distant and culturally alien tradition, on which we cannot rely to postulate and reconstruct early 5th-century history and public practice.
Zaccarini, M. (2017). The stoa of the Herms in context: (re)shaping paradigms. London, New York : Routledge.
The stoa of the Herms in context: (re)shaping paradigms
Zaccarini M.
2017
Abstract
This paper discusses evidence on one of the archaeological ghosts of the classical Athenian agora: the Stoa of the Herms. Traditionally, modern scholarship associates the stoa and its herms with Cimon, son of Miltiades, and employs relevant sources to postulate a complex, related Athenian celebration and contemporary reception of the monument. The paper shows that this association was likely invented by a distant and culturally alien tradition, on which we cannot rely to postulate and reconstruct early 5th-century history and public practice.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
