Abstract

La manera en la que conformamos una determinada memoria a partir de hechos trágicos de nuestro pasado repercute en el conocimiento que tenemos de dicho pasado. En el presente artículo se pretende dirimir la veracidad de dos episodios a través de los cuales Quilón de Esparta y Solón de Atenas, dos de los Siete Sabios de la antigua Grecia, avisan de las intenciones de Pisístrato en la consecución de su tiranía. Para ello se analizan ambos casos por separado, atendiendo al contexto de las fuentes y su evolución histórica, a n de entender su plasmación en la historiografía de los siglos V y IV a. C. El análisis historiográ co de estos dos acontecimientos en sus respectivas fuentes nos permite concluir que ambos avisos eran más literarios que históricos. The way in which we shape a particular memory based on tragic facts of the past has an e ect on the knowledge we have of that past. In this article, we aim to discern the reliability of two episodes in which Chilon of Sparta and Solon of Athens, two of the Seven Wise men of ancient Greece, warn about Pisistrato’s becoming a tyrant. Hence we analyse both cases separately, paying special attention to the sources and their historical evolution, in order to understand these episodes’ presence in the historiography of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Historiographical analysis of both stories in their respective sources let us conclude that both warnings were more literary than historical.

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