Il tema dell’homonoia nell’azione politica di Trasibulo

[Autom. eng. transl.] The theme of homonoia plays an important role in the anti-democratic propaganda of the end of the 5th century: compare, in this regard, the fragment of Trasimaco di Calcedone on the patrios politeia, preserved in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Su Demostene 3 and dated to 411. The fragment refers to an ancient constitution, with clear oligarchic emphases (the theme of sophronizein, the strong conservatism), capable of ensuring eirene and, indeed, homonoia; a constitution present in the tradition, such as to be defined patrios politeia, common (koinotate) to all citizens. The claim of homonoia in this context seems to be directed against the inability of postpericle demagogues and the democratic system itself to ensure the necessary unity between the different components of the city and the tendency to favor conflict and stasis. The term homonoia is inserted in a context of oligarchic propaganda rich in references to themes such as those of peace, subterranean and, precisely, the phantom "constitution of the fathers". Trasibulo, a man of old-democratic values, reacts with significant commitment to this propaganda, with a work of re-appropriation of the related terminology in a democratic key. Since the counterrevolution of Samos he has recovered the theme of homonoia in close connection with demokratia and with the oath of me mnesikakein, proposing, through the "forgetfulness of evil immediately", the true recomposition of the stasis in the recovery of that democratic civil coexistence proposed by Pericles in the Epitaph. In this way, Trasibulo seems to proceed with a sort of "resemantization" of the term homonoia, as indeed of other key terms (soteria, patrios politeia), through the relationship with the values ​​of the democratic tradition, beginning with the isotes: the slogans more effective of oligarchic propaganda are thus recovered and reinserted into democratic ideological and propagandistic instrumentation. The concord proposed by Trasibulo, based on the mutual forgiveness of faults and the rejection of revenge, starting from common values ​​of a political and ethical-religious nature, constitutes an original reading of homonoia, declined in a context without ambiguity and openly democratic.