Il lessico politico greco nei testi poetici e degli storici.

Some key concepts of Greek political life find their first mention in the Homeric poems, albeit applied to realities very different from those that characterised the polis. These are the contexts in which we see the army united in assembly, referred to as the agora, or the Trojan elders facing Priam, or the description of Achilles' shield forged by Hephaestus. Gradually, democratía, which appears as a value in Herodotus' thought, takes on a different content and is emptied of its original meaning to become a regime that asserts the right of the strongest. Finally, if it is true that Greek historicalpolitical reflection provides the fundamental lexicon, it is also true that the meaning of the words, that is, the political profile they describe, evolves profoundly and arrives at radically different contents in the modern and contemporary world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]