Demagogues, Power, and Friendship in Classical Athens by Robert Holschuh Simmons;

Author:Robert Holschuh Simmons; [Simmons, Robert Holschuh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781350214514
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
Published: 2022-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

V. Conclusion

Depictions of interactions between historical figures specifically labeled demagogues and other Athenians are not extant after the death of Cleon. But the sorts of engagements that are portrayed between Cleon (or a proxy of him) and Athenians (or actual or potential proxies of them) during Cleon’s life appear in other media for decades following his death. Figures in Euripidean tragedy—primarily Odysseus and Dionysus—who share much in common with Athenian demagogues, lead in the same philia-focused ways, using propinquity and homophily to promote friendship development, that Cleon appears to as he is represented in Aristophanes. And Xenophon portrays leaders in several of his biographies and histories operating in similar ways to Cleon and the tragic characters who follow his practices. All of these cases provide the best evidence available from our extant sources that the sort of leadership cultivation that Cleon seems to have practiced made an impact on leaders who followed him; leadership based on philia seems to have taken root as something that leaders aimed to employ and that many subordinates came to expect.

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