The paper discusses the content and philosophical background of the extensive passages in the first book of Diodorus Siculus that are in general (though not without some recent scepticism, which, however, seems excessive) considered to be derived from the Aegyptiaca of the Early Hellenistic writer Hecataeus of Abdera. Apparently, Hecataeus borrowed (but also tried to improve on) some ideas he found in Plato’s Republic to present Egypt as a kind of ideal constitutional monarchy; a recent attempt to unmask this picture as a dystopia seems misguided.
G. Alvoni (2018). Gli Aigyptiaka di Ecateo di Abdera ed il loro retroterra filosofico.
Gli Aigyptiaka di Ecateo di Abdera ed il loro retroterra filosofico
G. Alvoni
2018
Abstract
The paper discusses the content and philosophical background of the extensive passages in the first book of Diodorus Siculus that are in general (though not without some recent scepticism, which, however, seems excessive) considered to be derived from the Aegyptiaca of the Early Hellenistic writer Hecataeus of Abdera. Apparently, Hecataeus borrowed (but also tried to improve on) some ideas he found in Plato’s Republic to present Egypt as a kind of ideal constitutional monarchy; a recent attempt to unmask this picture as a dystopia seems misguided.File in questo prodotto:
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