'Politeia' in Classical Greek Historiography and in Historical Thought: Continuity and Change

  • Elisabetta Poddighe Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Keywords: Politeia, Local Historiography, Great Historiography, Intentional History, metabole politeion, Universal History, Civic Historiography, Aristotle

Abstract

Reflection on the politeia in both great and local historiography has been mainly focused on continuity between the past and the present of the polis. This does not mean that historiographers excluded the theme of constitutional discontinuity (metabole politeion) from their works, but rather that they never used it to adopt a universal perspective to consider the processes of change in the social history of the poleis. Such a decisive development came about thanks to Aristotle’s historical research in which the study of the politeia is put at the service of a new way of shaping the history of the polis (civic historiography).

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Published
2019-10-09
How to Cite
Poddighe E. (2019). ’Politeia’ in Classical Greek Historiography and in Historical Thought: Continuity and Change. Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua, 37(2), 271-300. https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.65973