Solon fr. 1-3 W: The Poetics and Politics of a Gesture

This article takes its point of departure from a tradition found in the Homeric scholia and fourth-century Athenian political invective: apparently, when Solon went to the agora to recite his politically illicit poem exhorting the Athenians to renew their war on Salamis (fr. 1-3 W), he reenacted a g...

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Main Author: Deborah T. Steiner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques 2014-02-01
Series:Cahiers Mondes Anciens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/mondesanciens/1236