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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... elites caused by the accumulation of wealth. At least on the Greek mainland, monarchical tendencies were always a veneer upon a stronger system of communitarian government. This essay will doubtless spark spirited de- bate among ancient ...
... elite status and communicating to nonelites the (relatively) more egalitarian nature of elite influence in the polis. Thus attempts at dominance by powerful members of the elite can be cast as reversion to a superseded past. The ...
... elite, who do not have the resources to match it. The symbiotic relationship of tyranny, wealth, and expenditure (studied by Kallet and Seaford), taken together with the implication of the king or tyrant in religious concerns (as we see ...
... elite opportunists are modified by the events of the Persian Wars into creating a model of the eastern tyrant. This image is then further modified by the events of the late fifth century, when the imperial ambition of Athens created the ...
... elite or the demagogues who threaten to curtail the sovereignty of the people and impose a tyranny upon them? The disagreement between Raaflaub on the one hand and Henderson and Kallet on the other is extremely fruitful. It underlines ...
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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 |