Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient GreeceKathryn A. Morgan University of Texas Press, 11/10/2013 - 352 من الصفحات The nature of authority and rulership was a central concern in ancient Greece, where the figure of the king or tyrant and the sovereignty associated with him remained a powerful focus of political and philosophical debate even as Classical Athens developed the world's first democracy. This collection of essays examines the extraordinary role that the concept of tyranny played in the cultural and political imagination of Archaic and Classical Greece through the interdisciplinary perspectives provided by internationally known archaeologists, literary critics, and historians. The book ranges historically from the Bronze and early Iron Age to the political theorists and commentators of the middle of the fourth century B.C. and generically across tragedy, comedy, historiography, and philosophy. While offering individual and sometimes differing perspectives, the essays tackle several common themes: the construction of authority and of constitutional models, the importance of religion and ritual, the crucial role of wealth, and the autonomy of the individual. Moreover, the essays with an Athenian focus shed new light on the vexed question of whether it was possible for Athenians to think of themselves as tyrannical in any way. As a whole, the collection presents a nuanced survey of how competing ideologies and desires, operating through the complex associations of the image of tyranny, struggled for predominance in ancient cities and their citizens. |
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... , and Economic Patronage LISA KALLET 155 Demos, Demagogue, Tyrant in Attic Old Comedy JEFFREY HENDERSON 181 The Tyranny of the Audience in Plato and Isocrates KATHRYN A. MORGAN 215 Tyrant Killing as Therapeutic Stasis: A Political Debate ...
... Kallet argues that the conspicuous use of wealth by the Athenian demos on a "tyrannical" scale reflects an aspect of tyrannical practice that the people would have found attractive and to which they could aspire. Jeffrey Henderson, too ...
... Kallet's fascinating essay. The demos both taxes and spends in a demonstration of its preeminent power. Its role as economic patron forestalls challenge from members of the elite, who do not have the resources to match it. The symbiotic ...
... Kallet's interpretation of Pericles' statement in Thucydides' Funeral Oration that the Athenians "love beauty with economy" suggests how Athenian imperial power and the luxurious perquisites that came -with it could be seen as an ...
... Kallet and Henderson? Both stress that the acquisition and exercise of quasi-tyrannical power might be seen as desirable by the ordinary Athenian citizen. Kallet focuses on the demos as tyrant in the realm of internal politics and ...
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The Question of Tyranny in Herodotus | 25 |
The Function of Tyranny in FifthCentury Athenian Democracy | 59 |
Tragic Tyranny | 95 |
Wealth Power and Economic Patronage | 117 |
Demos Demagogue Tyrant in Attic Old Commedy | 155 |
The Tyranny of the Audience in Plato and Isocrates | 181 |
A Political Debate in Images and Texts | 215 |
Changing the Discourse | 251 |
Afterword | 273 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Notes on Contributors | 305 |
General Index | 309 |
Index Locorum | 315 |