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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... suggests that the "acquisition of arguably tyrannical powers was considered by the majority of the Athenian demos to ... suggest that the demos was happy to act and talk in a fashion inconsistent with that ideology. It escapes from, even ...
... suggests, the use of money may mark a failure in reciprocity, but on a pragmatic level it enables successful diplomatic exchange and marks preeminence. Thus it is that the Athenian demos engages in quasi-tyrannical expenditure with its ...
... suggests how Athenian imperial power and the luxurious perquisites that came -with it could be seen as an example of eastern excess, an interpretation that Pericles wants to suppress. Similarly, the evocation of eastern luxury in the ...
... suggested, that conceptualizing the tyrant had an important part to play in the construction of an idea of the ... suggests that in developed Athenian democracy, the demos was "sovereign" and democratic authority was viewed as continuous ...
... suggests that the Athenians might positively assess themselves as tyrannical in the following ways: They possessed and spent 'tyrant-scale' wealth, they had economic power greater than any others and used it to express and strengthen ...
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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 |