Leaders of the Four Hundred in the Works of Cicero and his Roman Contemporaries

0480507 - FLÚ 2018 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Nývlt, Pavel
Leaders of the Four Hundred in the Works of Cicero and his Roman Contemporaries.
Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica.. -, č. 2 (2017), s. 29-39. ISSN 0567-8269
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Cicero * Cornelius Nepos * Roman literature * reception of Greek culture in Rome * ancient Greek history * ancient Greek historiography
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The article analyses references to Pisander, Antiphon, Phrynichus and Theramenes in the writings of Cicero and Nepos. From a historian’s point of view, the accuracy of the Romans’ statements varies greatly and has to be evaluated in each instance separately. The Romans’ opinions concerning the Greek politicians should be judged cautiously, because the Roman writers were not interested in giving an overall assessment of the Athenian oligarchs’ political careers.
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