The article examines the studies of Karl Julius Beloch on Greece in the 2nd millennium BC. Beloch evaluates this age as prehistory, and not history, due to the lack of contemporary written sources to events and has no faith in the historical value of myths, as he had in his youth: the myths for Beloch or are subsequent inventions or retain the memory of ancient stories with which the original Greeks explained the natural phenomena (the sunrise, the sunset, the phases of the moon, death ...). Beloch read Primitive Culture of Edward B. Tylor and applied the theory of animism to the most ancient Greek history, independently of the contemporary theories of Erwin Rohde and Hermann Usener. The 'very old' Greeks appeared in Beloch 'wild' and 'primitive'.
La «Grecia antichissima» di Karl Julius Beloch. ‘Preistoria’ greca e tradizioni delle ‘origini’ / Federico, E.. - In: INCIDENZA DELL'ANTICO. - ISSN 1971-2995. - 16:(2018), pp. 111-136.
La «Grecia antichissima» di Karl Julius Beloch. ‘Preistoria’ greca e tradizioni delle ‘origini’
Federico, E.
2018
Abstract
The article examines the studies of Karl Julius Beloch on Greece in the 2nd millennium BC. Beloch evaluates this age as prehistory, and not history, due to the lack of contemporary written sources to events and has no faith in the historical value of myths, as he had in his youth: the myths for Beloch or are subsequent inventions or retain the memory of ancient stories with which the original Greeks explained the natural phenomena (the sunrise, the sunset, the phases of the moon, death ...). Beloch read Primitive Culture of Edward B. Tylor and applied the theory of animism to the most ancient Greek history, independently of the contemporary theories of Erwin Rohde and Hermann Usener. The 'very old' Greeks appeared in Beloch 'wild' and 'primitive'.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
