Le ambizioni del filosofo : le tradizioni sulla morte di Eraclide Pontico

Bibliographic description

title:	Le ambizioni del filosofo : le tradizioni sulla morte di Eraclide Pontico
author:	Muccioli Federicomaria
journal title:	Electrum
volume:	21
date of publication :	2014
pages:	9-19
ISSN:	1897-3426
eISSN:	2084-3909
DOI:	10.4467/20800909EL.14.001.2777
language:	Italian
journal language:	English
abstract in English:	Ancient authors offer different traditions over the last days and wishes of the philosopher Heracleides Ponticus. The tales combined of Philodemus and Hermippus (in Diogenes Laertius) probably go back to Demochares of Leoconoe and his work against the philosophers, which thus could constitue the oldest and reliable source about it. After an exam of the political and religious context of Heracleia Pontica and Greek world in the times of Heracleides, we can accept that the philosopher managed to receive heroic honours post mortem, as described in the version of the nephew of Demosthenes.
keywords in English:	Heracleides Ponticus, divinization, heroization, Greek religion, IV c. BC
type:	journal article
subtype:	academic paper