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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... individual Greek despots, whose individualism seeks to escape the narrative template. This tension between an antityrannical template operating at the level of ideology and the unruly behavior of individuals and even citizen bodies is ...
... individual. Even though interpretation of Greek and Athenian ideologies varies in individual essays, these themes recur repeatedly— unsurprisingly, since they are at the center of life in a community. Morris' contribution performs two ...
... individual have to be before it counts as a monarchy? What is the nature of this authority? Does a ritual king have it? But if the kings of the Bronze Age were imaginary kings, what relevance does this have for the chief focus of this ...
... individual figure of authority. But the area in which the tension between individual and community is played out remains constant, and that area is ritual. Another important characteristic of tyrannical power is wealth. Seaford points ...
... individuals. In this picture the Greek tyrant represents the desires of the individual writ large, a representation consistent with the popular beliefs about the happiness of tyrants we see expressed gnomically in tragedy and in the ...
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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 |