Aristide «imperialista» nell’Athenaion Politeia aristotelica

abstract – This paper focuses on the image of Aristides in the Aristotelian Athenaion\r\nPoliteia. In § 1 it provides a survey of the passages in which Aristides in mentioned. In § 2\r\nit reconsiders the different traditions that emerge from the passages previously examined.\r\nIn § 3 it scrutinises a piece of information supplied by Arist. Ath. Pol. 24, 1, according to\r\nwhich Aristides advised the Athenian citizens to move from their farms and live in the city,\r\nwhere they could find plenty of food and hold public or military offices. In the last paragraph\r\n(§ 4), the paper concludes that Aristotle mixed different and sometimes conflicting\r\ntraditions on Aristides, but the genuine representation that he intended to provide was the\r\none that appears in Ath. Pol. 41, 2, where Aristides is negatively depicted as a precursor of\r\nthe radical democracy.