Open AccessRiflessioni su un frammento di Policleto di Larissa (FGrHist 128 F3 = Strab. XV 3, 21): interpretatio graeca dell’attività economica del Gran Re?
Author(s) -
Ennio Biondi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
erga / logoi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2282-3212
pISSN - 2280-9678
DOI - 10.7358/erga-2020-002-bion
Subject(s) - tribute , humanities , empire , persian , ancient history , art , history , philosophy , theology , art history
The aim of this article is to propose an historical analysis of the fragment FGrHist 128 F3 (= Strab. XV 3, 21) of the historian Polykleitos of Larissa. Polykleitos reports mostly administrative and economic news on the Persian Great King’s activity and testifies to a new approach to the study of the Persian Empire and its tribute system compared to Herodotus: these are complex evidences clarified in the light of the Aristotelian reflection on the oikonomia and the politics of Macedonians in Asia.