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The way in which we shape a particular memory based on tragic facts of the past has an effect on the knowledge we have of that past. In this article, we aim to discern the reliability of two episodes in which Chilon of Sparta and Solon of Athens, two of the Seven Wise men of ancient Greece, warn about Pisistrato’s becoming a tyrant. Hence we analyse both cases separately, paying special attention to the sources and their historical evolution, in order to understand these episodes’ presence in the historiography of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Historiographical analysis of both stories in their respective sources let us conclude that both warnings were more literary than historical. -- La manera en la que conformamos una determinada memoria a partir de hechos trágicos de nuestro pasado repercute en el conocimiento que tenemos de dicho pasado. En el presente artículo se pretende dirimir la veracidad de dos episodios a través de los cuales Quilón de Esparta y Solón de Atenas, dos de los Siete Sabios de la antigua Grecia, avisan de las intenciones de Pisístrato en la consecución de su tiranía. Para ello se analizan ambos casos por separado, atendiendo al contexto de las fuentes y su evolución histórica, a fin de entender su plasmación en la historiografía de los siglos V y IV a. C. El análisis historiográfico de estos dos acontecimientos en sus respectivas fuentes nos permite concluir que ambos avisos eran más literarios que históricos.

This article presents a historical discussion about the conceptual and historical limits of the irreligious phenomenon of atheism. The main aim is to approach the methodological lines of the study of atheism and to project them in the historical, cultural and religious context of Ancient Greece. The formal characteristics of the Greek religion will be analysed to understand the existence of sceptical positions about the existence of the gods. The study of the different historical sources allows us to analyse these atheistic positions, from the beginning of the philosophy with the pre-socratic philosophers until the classical period with Plato. It is a huge historical period with complex cultural events like the phenomenon of disbelief. -- El presente artículo presenta una discusión histórica en torno a los límites conceptuales e históricos del fenómeno irreligioso del ateísmo. Se busca presentar las líneas metodológicas del estudio del ateísmo y proyectarlas en el contexto histórico, cultural y religioso de la Grecia Antigua. Se analizarán las características formales de la religión griega para comprender la existencia de posiciones filosóficas que defendían una postura escéptica sobre los dioses. Se realizará una exposición de las fuentes históricas que nos han permitido analizar estas posturas ateas, desde el inicio de la filosofía con los autores presocráticos hasta el desarrollo de la obra de Platón, cubriendo así un amplio periodo histórico cargado de acontecimientos y complejidad cultural, entre ellos el fenómeno de la increencia.

In this paper, we study the references to historical books present in the Bibliotheca of Photius, twice a Patriarch of Constantinople, and a prolific writer of the 9th Century. In our study, we shall see the historiographic interests of Photius, mainly the lineal writing with not too many facts in them and a descriptive narrative. We shall know that in his age, books already unknown for us were at disposal, at least in Constantinople. Photius is an author to be known and read for both, historians and people interested in writing of History.

The aim of this article is to propose a critical and comparative study beginning from the epic model variations on the Spanish Literature from the twentieth century: Prometeo by Ramón Pérez de Ayala and ¿Por qué corres, Ulises? by Antonio Gala. To this purpose, a historic perspective will be designed, according to some Homeric episodes inside of the Odisea: the stay of the hero with Nausicaa in the phaeacians’ land, with the nymph Calypso in Ogygia, with the magician Circe in the Eea’s island, in the Lotofagi’s land, the Nekuia and the re-encounter with Penelope. To conclude, this article pretends to analyze the sense of the laugh from the tradition, to deal with the reinterpretation of the myth as a parody and an irony regarding the Homeric narration.

Throughout this article I will deal with the elements conforming the story of the Hyperboreans, present in ancient sources. We can split these elements into two big groups in order to arrange them: there are utopian elements and mythical elements. By analysing them, we will try to figure out which is the precise nature of this story, as well as the place where it belongs inside the collective imaginary of Ancient Greek.