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La desigual distribución de la riqueza bajo las condiciones actuales del capitalismo es, como bien se sabe, el eje sobre el que Piketty ha centrado su atención; asimismo, forma parte de sus reflexiones el posible rol del estado, a través... more
The relief fragment in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Inv. 12059 of unknown provenance comes from the left corner slab of the tympanon of a small pediment and carries a relief depicting a leftwards reclining Papposilenus, who... more
The anaylisis of the public and personal economic factors, joined to that prosopographical of the political leaders at the time and that of the citizenship rights, undertaken before, betray a complex but coherent scene of the Athenian... more
The aim of this essay is to present an iconographic overview of the elderly in “daily-life,” or “genre,” scenes on late Archaic to Classical (c. 520–400 BC) Athenian red-figure vases through the examination of the various traits of their... more
This paper examines in detail a hitherto little-known Athenian black-figure tripod pyxis of the mid-6th c. b.C. exhibited at the National Museum in Copenhagen (Inv. n. 4734.) All three legs of it feature multi-figured compositions,... more
This paper discusses the problem of the historiographical constructionof the concept of polis, using as strategy the analysis of the historiographicaltreatment to the subject of the inclusion/exclusion of the resident aliens (metics)in... more
«Ὅ τι ἂν δόξῃ τοῖς πλείοσι, τοῦτ᾽ εἶναι τέλος καὶ τοῦτ᾽ εἶναι τὸ δίκαιον» (Αριστοτέλης, Πολιτικά, 1317b5-7). Για πολλούς ερευνητές, η Δημοκρατία συνιστά το μεγαλύτερο επίτευγμα και το σημαντικότερο κληροδότημα της αρχαίας Ελλάδας (της... more
This paper shows that the staging of secondary characters in Sophocles' tragedies is closely related to the place of lower-status citizens in Athenian society. Citizens who belonged to inferior socio-political groups could easily identify... more
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