RATIONES RERUM 24: Articolo Federicomaria Muccioli

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Rationes Rerum 24

FEDERICOMARIA MUCCIOLI
Teopompo, Teocrito di Chio e il culto per Alessandro Magno

This article – left unfinished by its author, who passed away in 2020 – studies the position of two prominent figures from the island of Chios, the historian Theopompus and the rhetor Theocritus, with respect to the cult of Alexander the Great. While Theopompus saw no contraindication to the deification of the Macedonian king, Theocritus opposed resolutely such forms of adulation, extending his criticism to the exhibitions of wealth and luxury with which Alexander and his companions cloaked their power.