Diodore et les monuments d’Agrigente : la réversibilité des signes

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_16587
dc.contributor.author	Robert Renaud
dc.title	Diodore et les monuments d’Agrigente : la réversibilité des signes
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	fr
dc.description.abstract	The present study focuses mainly on the monuments of Agrigento which are the only ones that, along with those of Syracuse, benefit from a relatively developed treatment in Diodorus. The mention of these monuments does not always appear at the place in the story where one would expect it. The changes of place, the silences and the choice to develop the descriptions more or less obey, for the historian, a narrative and dramaturgical purpose: it is a question of emphasising the links that unite certain episodes sometimes distant from each other depending on a moral causality. Part of the study is reserved for the Phalaris bull. Depending on the sources, the invention of this instrument of torture is attributed either to the tyrant or to the artist Perilaos. Diodorus very likely made Phalaris responsible for the machine in order to highlight a parallel between the cruelty of the tyrant and that of Agathocles.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Filologia e letteratura
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-12-19
dc.dateAccepted	2023-05-19
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-02-13
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-743-2/diodore-et-les-monuments-dagrigente-la-reversibili/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-742-5/007
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-743-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-742-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Agrigento
dc.subject	Callimachus
dc.subject	Carthago
dc.subject	Dionysius of Syracuse
dc.subject	Gelo
dc.subject	Monuments
dc.subject	Phalaris

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Diodore et les monuments d’Agrigente : la réversibilité des signes

Renaud Robert Université de Bordeaux, France

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The present study focuses mainly on the monuments of Agrigento which are the only ones that, along with those of Syracuse, benefit from a relatively developed treatment in Diodorus. The mention of these monuments does not always appear at the place in the story where one would expect it. The changes of place, the silences and the choice to develop the descriptions more or less obey, for the historian, a narrative and dramaturgical purpose: it is a question of emphasising the links that unite certain episodes sometimes distant from each other depending on a moral causality. Part of the study is reserved for the Phalaris bull. Depending on the sources, the invention of this instrument of torture is attributed either to the tyrant or to the artist Perilaos. Diodorus very likely made Phalaris responsible for the machine in order to highlight a parallel between the cruelty of the tyrant and that of Agathocles.

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Dec. 19, 2023

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May 19, 2023

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Feb. 13, 2023

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Keywords: Carthago • Gelo • Dionysius of Syracuse • Phalaris • Agrigento • Monuments • Callimachus

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