RATIONES RERUM 20: Articolo Cinzia Bearzot

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Rationes Rerum 20

CINZIA BEARZOT
L’Alcibiade di Teofrasto

Three fragments of Theophrastus are devoted to Alcibiades’ oratory, to his agreement with Phaeax on the occasion of the ostracism of Hyperbolus, and to his exceptional but embarrassing personality. They testify to Theophrastus’ interest in fifth-century political and institutional history and to the fascination exercised by a controversial protagonist in Athenian political life such as Alcibiades.