Períoikoi: los registros tempranos del término en las Historias de Heródoto [Períoikoi: the early occurrences of the term in Herodotus' Histories]

In recent years there has been a growing scholarly interest in the rural settlements located in the regions of Laconia and Messenia, commonly referred to as perioikic communities. Despite an existing partial consensus concerning the economic and military connections between the perioikic communities...

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Published inMyrtia Vol. 29; p. 63
Main Author Basile, Gastón Javier
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
Published Murcia Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia 01.01.2014
Subjects
Ancient history
Greek civilization
Herodotus
Herodotus (c. 484 – 425/413 BCE)
Linguistics
Semantics
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Summary:In recent years there has been a growing scholarly interest in the rural settlements located in the regions of Laconia and Messenia, commonly referred to as perioikic communities. Despite an existing partial consensus concerning the economic and military connections between the perioikic communities and the Spartan polis, the actual status of such settlements still remains a matter of considerable controversy. This paper adopts a semantic-lexicological approach in an attempt to outline the discursive connotations of the term períoikoi and its cognates as employed in the classical sources. Such analysis aims to contribute to the ongoing historiographical debates, many of which overlook the in situ occurrences of the term in the actual sources and its various connotations. The paper specifically explores the linguistic and semantic fields of the term períoikos and its cognates as first recorded in Herodotus' Histories.
ISSN:0213-7674
1989-4619