Ostilità e omaggio al nuovo signore? I commediografi ateniesi davanti a Filippo II. Un’ipotesi su due frammenti di Efippo e Alessi

Abstract

In addition to the rhetoricians and orators who at Athens supported or opposed Philip, a number of playwrights – such as Ephippus and Alexis – did not hesitate to express their opinions of the Macedonian king. Some fragments of their works, however, seem to show conflicting positions, for if Ephippus supported the anti-Macedonian party, Alexis, while including Philip in some comedies, did not blame the king by turning him into a comic mask, but praised his political decisions and his respect for religion and traditions.

Keywords

• alessi di turi
• atene
• commedia attica
• demostene
• efippo commediografo
• egesippo
• eschine
• filippo di macedonia – aeschines
• alexis of thurioi
• athens
• attic comedy
• demosthenes
• ephippus comedian
• hegesippus
• philip of macedonia.