Qa-si-re-u micénico y Basileús homérico. Continuidad y discontinuidad en la concepción griega de la realeza

Abstract

This paper takes the transition from the Mycenaean qa-si-re-u to Homeric and historic basileús as an example of continuity between Lae Bronze Age and the world of the Homeric poems and the rising of the Grek city-state. Our hypothesis upholds that this transition was partly based on the construction of two different patterns of kingship: a pattern divine and perfect embodied by Zeus who appropriated many features of the Mycenaean wa-na-ka and another, human and faulty, that was assumed by the basileús (a heir of the Mycenaean qa-si-re-u, a local and non-palatialleader mentioned in Linear B texts).