Los teseidas, la colonización de Sigeo y el quersoneso Tracio en el imaginario ateniense arcaico

Abstract

Athens doesn’t participate out of Attica in the colonization until the end of VII Century BC. The chosen area, the Sigeum, the Troad and the Chersonese (and afterwards also Thrace) is constructed in the Athenian imaginary world as a space settled by Attic heroes who justify Athenian control. Some leading Attic families use these heroes in their «particular» interests in a moment where it is not easy to separate between «public» and «private». Troad and the Chersonese are mythical constructed worlds, imagined places marked by the Homeric poems and other narrations manipulated and used in Archaic period by Athens, specifically those of the Theseids.