Open AccessRileggendo Eumolpo: un’autoctonia rivisitata
Author(s) -
Pasqua De Cicco
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.2015.01.1304
Subject(s) - barbarian , hero , character (mathematics) , literature , history , ancient history , philosophy , art , genealogy , mathematics , geometry
The study proposes an examen of the genealogies related to the mythical figure of Eumolpus, in the light of the gap between the local Eleusinian tradition, linked to a remote megarian past and the archaic and classic propaganda of Athens, which transforms the hero into the main (barbarian) character of the wars of Eleusis. The projects aims to demonstrate the continuity between the Eleusinian Eumolpus, progenitor of the ierophantic family, and the homonymic Thracian warrior who opposes to Athens