Paulo Donoso

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso | PUCV · Institute of History

STASIS, DISSIDENCE AND RESISTANCE IN THUCYDIDES: Books III and VIII of Thucydides contain the most explicit and violent descriptions of the stasis in the context of the Peloponnesian War. In this paper, we identify and analyse passages whose interpretation evidence positions of dissidence and resistance to the democratic side by a Thucydides who se...

This is No 10, Year 3, March 2022, of Nuova Antologia Militare (NAM), the international journal of the Italian Society of Military History. This is the third NAM issue on Ancient Military History

In ancient Greek there are at least five terms that define the mass, the crowd and the multitude. One of them is ὄχλος, a concept born in the 5th Century B.C. which is used repeatedly by Thucydides as a biased synonym for δῆμος. From the analysis of some of the eighteen mentions of the term ὄχλος in his work, it is possible to reaffirm the powerful...

Stásis as a political phenomenon arises in Archaic Greece as a consequence of the absence of written law, tyrannical governments and the iniquities due to the excessive accumulation of wealth by the aristocratic class. Didactic epic, elegies and iambus describe social unrest in the different póleis. The stásis is narrated, sometimes explicitly, som...

Stásis as a political phenomenon arises in Archaic Greece as a consequence of the absence of written law, tyrannical governments and the iniquities due to the excessive accumulation of wealth by the aristocratic class. Didactic epic, elegies and iambus describe social unrest in the different póleis. The stasis is narrated, sometimes explicitly, so...

This article deals with the representation of piracy addressed by Thucydides. He refers to the spread of piracy among ancient Greeks and barbarians while also relating the decrease of this practice with the idea of progress in Athens. He also refers to the socioeconomical aspect of piracy in ancient Greece, picturing it as another source of sustena...

Uno de los epítetos más complejos heredado de la Grecia clásica es el de barbarie. Este término político-cultural contribuyó a forjar una idea respecto a la visión centro-periferia que tuvo el mundo griego en relación a los pueblos extranjeros. Este artículo pretende abordar la mirada de Tucídides hacia la Grecia de los orígenes en algunos pasajes...

Resumen: Según heródoto, los verdaderos enemigos por naturaleza son los mismos pueblos griegos que arrastran fuertes disputas históricas ancestrales. Para Tucídides, la enemistad natural está representada en la hostilidad étnica de las colonias sicilianas hacia su metrópolis Atenas. La noción de enemistad natural tiene múltiples significados y usos...

During the organization of the Republic of Chile at the beginning of the nineteenth century, we find the figure of the priest Jose Ignacio Victor Eyzaguirre. His strong defense of Catholicism facing the new liberal ideologies led him to travel the world seeking answers to his concerns. His ecclesiastical career led him to hold hight positions in th...

Until the classic Greek period (5th Century B.C), the Black Sea was considered like a geographical area of boundary in the Hellenic world. In this article, I present some reflections about the different notions of border used by historiography and literature about the Pontus Euxinus and its inhabitants. Words such as linguistic, political, economic...

El historiador ateniense Tucídides, uno de los padres de la Historia, cobra relevancia en este libro que revisa algunas traducciones castellanas del texto griego compuesto hace más de dos mil años. Se sabe que en 1483, el humanista italiano Lorenzo Valla publica la primera traducción de las Historias de Tucídides del griego al latín. Esta versión l...

Ponencia en Semana de Estudios Romanos 2017. Se presentará, a través del relato de las Historias del historiador Tácito, tres modelos de enemigos que el historiador construye, a saber: hostis ponticus; hostis civilis y hostis germanicus.

El último libro del filólogo e historiador italiano Luciano Canfora se presenta como la culminación de un largo proceso de investigación iniciada por el autor en la década de los sesenta sobre la vida y obra de Tucídides 1. El libro se presenta en cuatro partes junto a un cuerpo de apéndices complementarios. En ellos el historiador recurre al antig...

Historiography in times of crisis. The trial against Cremutius Cordus. During the reign of Tiberius, Rome was plunged into a series of conspiracies and uprising that affected the pax established by Augustus. In that scenario, the lex maiestatis was applied against the historian and senator Cremutius Cordus which declared in the his Histories that...

This article intend to analyse some concepts inside in the Thucydides book VIII. Concepts like acquire a different sense influenced by the psychological content that the historian prints in his work. These words allow understand the events of the 411 B.C. and the Thucydides perspectives during the last years of the Peloponnesian WAr.