Alexander's Return of the Tyrannicide Statues to Athens.

• Autores: Jennifer Finn
• Localización: Historia: zeitschrift für alte geschichte : revue d'histoire ancienne, ISSN 0018-2311, Vol. 63, Nº 4, 2014, págs. 385-403
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • The statue group of the Athenian tyrannicides, Harmodius and Aristogeiton, allegedly stolen by Xerxes in the fifth century BC, was discovered in 330 BC at Susa by Alexander the Great, and returned sometime during the Hellenistic period. The repatriation of the statues has commonly been viewed as a measure of appeasement towards the Athenians, as per the Pan-Hellenic pact against Persian interests at the Council of Corinth. Yet a combination of Greek, Latin, and cuneiform sources yields possibilities for alternative interpretations. In this article, I argue that the return of the tyrannicide statue group was an intentionally symbolic directive by Alexander himself, meant to invoke well-established ancient Mesopotamian royal precedent. This act was part of a coherent policy in Alexander's formulation of his own royal identity in the Near East.