A peste de Atenas, mithistória em miniatura: o daímon e a heroicidade do historiador

Abstract

This essay proposes a (re)reading of the Thucydidean account of the Plague in Athens  as a mythistory in miniature i.e. a historiographical narrative in the factual scale of a singular event the narrative of which contemplates the nexus of narrative principles configured by the Thucydidean conception of history in the terms that were laid out in my previous work (Mithistória, 1999). This essay suggests that the hermeneutics of this Thucydidean text supposes the complementary duality of a semantic  game: the affirmation of the dominant logos of the language in which it expresses itself may conceal as recessive the memory of the language of the myth that would be (im)perceptibly elided.