Regard interdisciplinaire sur le statut de l'arc en Grèce antique
Modern scientists portrayed the bow in Greek culture as the weapon of inferior warriors as opposed to swords and lances. Its presence in Greek archaic texts has been considered as the result of oriental influences. This “exogenous” way of considering the bow in Ancient Greece has been established on...
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Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO
2015-05-01
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| Series: | Corela |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/corela/3690 |
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| Summary: | Modern scientists portrayed the bow in Greek culture as the weapon of inferior warriors as opposed to swords and lances. Its presence in Greek archaic texts has been considered as the result of oriental influences. This “exogenous” way of considering the bow in Ancient Greece has been established on the basis of pictures on amphorae, historical, comical texts and tragedies, and had repercussions on linguistics: τόξον (tóxon), the most used word for “bow”, has been seen as a loan-word from the Scythian language. However, a different read-through of the Homeric and post-Homeric material shows that archers were not considered as inferior warriors in archaic Greece, but only in classical Greece. This change of perspective had consequences in linguistics as well: the word τόξον would then be vertically inherited from PIE instead of being loaned from a sister-language. Donec et nisi at leo rhoncus facilisis. Donec at urna. Sed commodo dolor vitae leo. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Sed nec justo. Maecenas eget turpis. Integer purus diam, bibendum et, sagittis sit amet, vehicula quis, velit. Nunc velit pede, pharetra vitae, placerat in, faucibus eget, eros. Praesent et libero non odio dapibus lobortis. Donec vestibulum. Donec lectus ante, volutpat lobortis, euismod quis, aliquam at, enim. Sed laoreet consequat libero. Donec volutpat laoreet enim. Cras pellentesque fermentum nibh. Duis purus. Etiam laoreet dui nec purus. Aliquam ipsum dui, scelerisque quis, viverra pulvinar, tristique vitae, neque. |
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| ISSN: | 1638-573X |