Paches’ Trial between Contemporary Echoes and Late Literary Tradition

Name: Paches’ Trial between Contemporary Echoes and Late Literary Tradition
Brand: Vita e Pensiero
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AEVUM

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AEVUM - 2016 - 1

Titolo

Paches’ Trial between Contemporary Echoes and Late Literary Tradition

Autore

Annabella Oranges

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Vita e Pensiero

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05-2016

Issn

0001-9593 (stampa) | 1827-787X (digitale)

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This paper deals with Paches’ trial, held in 427 BC in connection with the euthyna (the mandatory officials’ account) Paches underwent as a general during the Athenian campaign against Mytilene. This trial, unknown to the leading sources on this military campaign (Thucydides and Diororus), is mentioned in two almost identical passages of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, and in an epigram of Agathias Scholasticus. Modern scholars have been quite sceptical about these accounts, especially in relation to the fact that Plutarch describes Paches’ suicide as a tragic consequence of his conviction on trial. Nevertheless, two passages of Aristophanes’ comedies, which appear to hint at the general’s tragic end, seem to move in the same direction as Plutarch. The comparison between our leading sources on the campaign against Mytilene and the late sources on Paches’ story allow us to trace back the procedural features of the general’s trial to a consistent framework.