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  1. Heroes, Politics, and the Problem of Ethnicity in Archaic and Classical Sparta.Nicolette Pavlides - 2021 - Kernos 34:9-53.
    As Sparta was a Dorian polis, many of its heroic cults have been interpreted as part of Sparta’s so-called ‘Achaian’ policy, which introduced Achaian heroes in order to legitimise its territorial claims in the Peloponnese. This article reviews the topic of ethnicity as a motivating factor behind the instigation of hero-cults in the Greek world. It focuses on three case studies in Sparta: the cult of Agamemnon, the transfer of the bones of Orestes, and of those belonging to his son (...)
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  • “Bad News” in Herodotos and Thoukydides: misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda.Donald Lateiner - 2021 - Journal of Ancient History 9 (1):53-99.
    Herodotos and Thoukydides report on many occasions that kings, polis leaders, and other politicians speak and behave in ways that unintentionally announce or analyze situations incorrectly (misinformation). Elsewhere, they represent as facts knowingly false constructs or “fake news” (disinformation), or they slant data in ways that advance a cause personal or public (propaganda, true or false). Historians attempt to or claim to acquaint audiences with a truer fact situation and to identify subjects’ motives for distortion such as immediate personal advantage, (...)
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  • Isocrates, the Chian intellectuals, and the political context of the Euthydemus.Slobodan Dušanić - 1999 - Journal of Hellenic Studies 119:1-16.
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