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ТРАКИЙСКАТА ЦАРСКА ИДЕОЛОГИЯ ИЛИ НЕСВЪРШЕКЪТ НА ТРАКИЙСКИЯТ СВЯТ
THRACIAN ROYAL IDEOLOGY OR THE CONTINUITY OF THE THRACIAN WORLD

Author(s): Dennis Isaev
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural history, Comparative history, Ethnohistory, Social history, Ancient World, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Асоциация за антропология, етнология и фолклористика ОНГЬЛ
Keywords: thracology; ethnos; polis; ancient; heritage; Europe; Plato; Ancient Thrace; kingdom;

Summary/Abstract: In the Thracian world, the concept of religion in the classical sense is not characteristic, since religion implies the restoration of a broken connection with the Creator and the universe. Cicero is the one that justifies 192 the need to be restored the connection between man, society and space. The Thracian world, up to the Hellenistic era, manages to maintain this connection in society and within its small states, which apparently do not expand due to the worn morality in oral, Thracian orphism. This, in turn, brings statehood in Ancient Thrace to the Ideal State of Utopia. The fact that I bring the Thracian world closer to the “Ideal State” of Plato does not mean that I equalize them. The statehood in ancient Thrace is not the Platonic ideal state, but it is the closest manifestation of the ideal monarchy in antiquity. Plato’s ideal of state is the antithesis of Aristotle. The Aristotelian idea of a successful state model is the model for modern Europe. Ancient Thrace is a recognized social and civilization model for its contemporaries, because it is systematic and comprehensive, it constructs the conflict of oral – literary, monarchy – democracy, centralization – decentralization. How do the social relations carried in the oral culture of contemporary Bulgaria work, do they mix with the values of the written norms and rules? Where are we in this European world – we have not yet described it, written it, we have not yet made it history. The cultural heritage of antiquity is not yet a realized and lived reality that is why there are “The different types of time in Thracology”!

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 188-192
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Bulgarian