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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... stories of 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 ...
... the wanax is sustainable (even if it is not the whole story), the centrality of cult is a major area of continuity between Bronze Age and later notions of monarchic rule. Ritual kingship casts a shadow down KATHRYN A. MORGAN.
... stories associated with historical tyrants such as Polycrates and in the abuse of ritual by tragic characters such as Cly- temnestra. The abuse of the sacred forms part of a larger pattern in which the destruction of the royal family ...
... story is not the whole story, for the rule of the Great King, or indeed of any successful tyrant, could be viewed as the pinnacle of human achievement and happiness (a view that Plato combats energetically). Kallet's interpretation of ...
... story, and we can tease out a different narrative of oligarchic threat. Similarly, we can trace the construction of an antityrannical political self-image that was at odds with the dictates and temptations of tyrannical desire as traced ...
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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 |