Los pretendientes de Helenajuramentos, sacrificios y cofradías guerreras en el mundo griego antiguo
ISSN: 1130-0728
Ano de publicación: 1995
Número: 7
Páxinas: 145-185
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: Polis: revista de ideas y formas políticas de la Antigüedad
Resumo
This paper studies the relationship between the oath of Helen's suitors, the Trojan War as a panhellenic conflict and the existence of warrior brotherhoods in Ancient Greek World, through the similarities between the ritual described by Pausanias (III, 20, 9) and some ancient indoeuropean rituals (like Ashvameda and October Equus) and remains of the ancient indoeuropean warrior ideology that can be discemed in the Ancient Greek World. Eventually the paper tries to explain the differences between the indoeuropean warrior conception and the classical greek conception.