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Aitna e Naxos nella politica territoriale di Ierone: alcune osservazioni

2018

Aim of this study is to review the literary sources about Hieron’s politics against the Chalcidian colonies of Katane and Naxos, in order to explain some aspects of the ethnic redistribution in the territory ruled by the tyrant in connection with the re-foundation of Aitna and Naxos. The colony of Aitna looks like a city made up by various ethnic groups, and this is not contradicted by the famous excursus about the foundation of Aitna in Pindar’s First Pythian Ode, where there is no clue about any supposed opposition between Ionian and Dorian ethne. Here, the emphasis on the Dorian institutions introduced at Aitna by Hieron in favour of his son Deinomene seems functional to show that the ro…