2016 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
archē in Herodotus and Thucydides
verfasst von : Peter Spahn
Erschienen in: Thucydides and Political Order
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
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The word archē first became a political term during the archaic era. In the earliest literature, the epics of Homer and Hesiod, it meant beginning, origin, and cause.1 Neither in the epics nor in the surviving texts of archaic poetry does archē have any political connotations. One indirect record of the word’s political usage stems from the late sixth century BC. Remarkably this record is found in Thucydides.