Xenelasia
The xenelasia ( Greek. ) Was loud Aristotle a Fremdenaustreibung, especially the expulsion of foreigners from ancient Sparta . According to recent research, xenelasia is now seen as one in the 5th century BC. Chr. From the outside constructed exaggeration of the actual conditions in order to strengthen the defensive strength of the respective polis .
Hekataios von Abdera saw a well-constructed chain of arguments based on the Jews' memories of the experience of xenelasia ( Moses ), their misanthropy and isolating customs . However, recent research no longer sees him as a philosemitic or even anti-Semitic author.
literature
- Stefan Rebenich : Xenophobia in Sparta? Reflections on the tradition of Spartan xenelasia ; in: Klio. 1998, vol. 80, pp. 336-359
- Andrey V. Zaykov Spartan xenelasiai. (in Russian + German summary.) in: Antichnaya Drevnost 'i Srednie Veka. Yekaterinburg Ural University , 1999. No. 30. pp. 6-25.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The historical fragments of Aristóteles, ed. v. Martin Hose, Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-0500-3755-5 , p. 199.
- ↑ Renè S. Bloch: Ancient ideas of Judaism: The Jewish excursion of Tacitus in the context of Greco-Roman ethnography, Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart 2002, p. 38, ISBN 3-515-07971-8