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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... political and literary authority. Josiah Ober ("Tyrant Killing as Therapeutic Stasis: A Political Debate in Images and Texts") concentrates on the resonance of tyrannicide as a model of therapeutic civil conflict and on how this model ...
... political authority returned to those few who actually deserve it and are capable of its appropriate exercise" (p ... political authority on the author of the philosophical text, since the relationship of author and audience is political ...
... political power, and they were free, unaccountable to anyone but themselves. At the same time, she detects in our literary sources two conflicting attitudes towards such a connection. Pericles, with his vision of an aristocratic ...
... politics — all interpenetrate, and several truths combine.5 Competing ideologies and desires struggle for space in cities and their citizens. This lack of uniformity within the body politic means that different political arenas ...
... political dangers. The figure of the tyrant was a convenient repository in which to load fears about political change and about one's own darker impulses. But we must not allow rhetorical convenience to make us oversimplify a complex ...
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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 |