De los "ptochoi" homéricos a los del siglo IVlo viejo y lo nuevo, mendicidad y evergesía

  1. Miriam Valdés Guía 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Book:
Lo viejo y lo nuevo en las sociedades antiguas: homenaje a Alberto Prieto
  1. Jordi Cortadella (coord.)
  2. Oriol Olesti Vila (coord.)
  3. César Sierra Martín (coord.)
  4. Alberto Prieto (hom.)

Publisher: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté ; Université de Franche-Comté

ISBN: 978-2-84867-629-6

Year of publication: 2018

Pages: 103-119

Congress: Groupe international de recherches sur l'esclavage dans l'antiquité (GIREA). Congreso Internacional (36. 2013. Barcelona)

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

In this paper the character of the beggar ("ptochos") is examinated from Homer's time to 4th century B.C. In the Odyssey, the "ptochoi" represent the worst part of society: they are considered as thetes and potencial "unemployed" people, and they are also described as "parasites". The Athenian "dèmos" gradually abandoned this conception, in the 5th century B.C. at least, but another period of time comes when the image of the "parasite" (or perhaps a part en environment where poverty is a threat to the less wealthy "dèmos". Theses people experienced situations of dependency and marginalization again, similar to what beggars experienced, even though society still protected them.

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