The mazai that appear in some passages of Aristophanes’ Knights allude to Thucydides’ account of a famous episode of the Peloponnesian War: the entrapment, in 425 BC, of 292 Spartan hoplites on the island of Sphacteria, off Pylos, by the Athenians. Thucydides quotes and comments on the texts of two documents, the armistice between Athens and Sparta and the Spartan decree. Both documents dealt with the food supply of the hoplites and both mentioned barley flour, which was carried to them in the form of barley cakes.
Le mazai di Pilo
Annalisa Paradiso
2023-01-01
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The mazai that appear in some passages of Aristophanes’ Knights allude to Thucydides’ account of a famous episode of the Peloponnesian War: the entrapment, in 425 BC, of 292 Spartan hoplites on the island of Sphacteria, off Pylos, by the Athenians. Thucydides quotes and comments on the texts of two documents, the armistice between Athens and Sparta and the Spartan decree. Both documents dealt with the food supply of the hoplites and both mentioned barley flour, which was carried to them in the form of barley cakes.File in questo prodotto:
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