TY  - BOOK
AU  - David,Sylvie
TI  - Decision Making in Theseus Synoecism According to Isocrates’s Encomium of Helen (3237)
PY  - 2009///.
							
N1  - 56
N2  - This article studies the various stages that lead Theseus to take the decision to perform the synœcism and to endow the newly formed city with a specific political system. Observing the misdeeds of tyranny, he founds a democracy of merit by which the people deliver its power in the hands of the man considered most capable of governing, in the case Theseus himself. In these circumstances, monarchy – government of one – and democracy – people power – are not mutually exclusive. The reflection of Isocrates aims however less to advocate a type of system than to stimulate civic virtues of his fellow citizens, by recalling the exemplary dedication of Theseus to the city in mythical times
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-dialogues-d-histoire-ancienne-2009-2-page-69?lang=en
ER  -