The stories about Miletus foundation and the ancient tradition about the stasis of the sixth century seem to preserve – or create and exploit – the memory of a role played by ethnicity in these events and show the existence of a relationship of these ethnic dynamics with the settlement of the various elements in the city or in the territory, where was located the pre-Greek oracular sanctuary, the Didymaion. The founding hero is likely to participate in this dynamic. This contribution aims to study: (1.) through the founding hero Neleus the representation of (a.) the ethnic Community identity and (b.) the territory occupation from the emic point of view of the Ionians of Miletus; (2.) how it is instead considered by the ethical perspective of other elements of the city; (3.) the hero’s role in the self-affirming regional identity of the Ionians who meet in the Panionion around Poseidon in Mycale.
Nélée héros fondateur et l’identité communautaire: Milet et les Ioniens
Marina Polito
2018
Abstract
The stories about Miletus foundation and the ancient tradition about the stasis of the sixth century seem to preserve – or create and exploit – the memory of a role played by ethnicity in these events and show the existence of a relationship of these ethnic dynamics with the settlement of the various elements in the city or in the territory, where was located the pre-Greek oracular sanctuary, the Didymaion. The founding hero is likely to participate in this dynamic. This contribution aims to study: (1.) through the founding hero Neleus the representation of (a.) the ethnic Community identity and (b.) the territory occupation from the emic point of view of the Ionians of Miletus; (2.) how it is instead considered by the ethical perspective of other elements of the city; (3.) the hero’s role in the self-affirming regional identity of the Ionians who meet in the Panionion around Poseidon in Mycale.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
