A Reading on Xenophon’s Hiero (2.8-16; 6.7-10): Citizens and War in the Tyrant’s Discourse

• Autores: Elisabetta Poddighe
• Localización: Araucaria: Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política, Humanidades y Relaciones Internacionales, ISSN 1575-6823, ISSN-e 2340-2199, Vol. 26, Nº 57, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Jenofonte / La gestión del turismo en las ciudades históricas de América Latina), págs. 245-267
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.12795/araucaria.2024.i57.12
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Una lectura sobre el Hierón de Jenofonte (2.8-16; 6.7-10): los ciudadanos y la guerra en el discurso del tirano
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• Resumen
  • español

    Este ensayo se centra en el papel que desempeña el tema de la guerra librada por los ciudadanos en el lamento del tirano Hierón por su perdida condición de ciudadano. Al invocar el compromiso militar que los ciudadanos ofrecen a la ciudad cuando ésta se compromete en una guerra común, el tirano pone de relieve ciertos aspectos de la condición ciudadana que le faltan por encima de todo: es la participación en las deliberaciones comunes que tienen lugar cuando la comunidad se pronuncia sobre la decisión de hacer la guerra por el bien común, es la protección que las leyes garantizan a los ciudadanos que se comprometen en la defensa de la ciudad, el honor que la victoria sobre el enemigo aporta a toda la comunidad de ciudadanos.

  • English

    This essay focuses on the role that the theme of the war waged by the citizens plays in the tyrant Hiero’s regret for his lost status as a citizen. By invoking the military commitment that citizens offer to the city when it is engaged in a common war, Hiero underlines those aspects of being a citizen that he misses the most: sharing in the joys of victory, taking part in collective discussions when the community decides to go to war for a common advantage, the protection of the laws afforded to the citizens defending their city, the honor that victory over the enemy brings to the entire community of citizens.

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