Ancient TyrannySian Lewis Edinburgh University Press, 2006 - 282 من الصفحات Tyrants and tyranny are more than the antithesis of democracy and the mark of political failure: they are a dynamic response to social and political pressures.This book examines the autocratic rulers and dynasties of classical Greece and Rome and the changing concepts of tyranny in political thought and culture. It brings together historians, political theorists and philosophers, all offering new perspectives on the autocratic governments of the ancient world.The volume is divided into four parts. Part I looks at the ways in which the term 'tyranny' was used and understood, and the kinds of individual who were called tyrants. Part II focuses on the genesis of tyranny and the social and political circumstances in which tyrants arose. The chapters in Part III examine the presentation of tyrants by themselves and in literature and history. Part IV discusses the achievements of episodic tyranny within the non-autocratic regimes of Sparta and Rome and of autocratic regimes in Persia and the western Mediterranean world.Written by a wide range of leading experts in their field, Ancient Tyranny offers a new and comparative study of tyranny within Greek, Roman and Persian society. |
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... desire for a dictator , for strong leadership , for social control and for security , is at least as strong a factor as the would - be tyrant's desire : consider the enthusiasm of the Roman people for rule by Caesar or by Augustus , the ...
... desire for a dictator , for strong leadership , for social control and for security , is at least as strong a factor as the would - be tyrant's desire : consider the enthusiasm of the Roman people for rule by Caesar or by Augustus , the ...
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... desires seems related to his expertise at manipu- lating the desires and emotions of his fellow citizens . To win their support at an early point in his career , he bribes the mass of Athenians with their own money . Throughout his life ...
... desires seems related to his expertise at manipu- lating the desires and emotions of his fellow citizens . To win their support at an early point in his career , he bribes the mass of Athenians with their own money . Throughout his life ...
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... desires . We have to believe , then , that Cratinus ' audience laughed at his comic Pericles because they recognised in him some- thing of the political persona of the real Pericles . This does not imply that the Athenians found ...
... desires . We have to believe , then , that Cratinus ' audience laughed at his comic Pericles because they recognised in him some- thing of the political persona of the real Pericles . This does not imply that the Athenians found ...
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Kingship and tyranny in archaic Rome | 17 |
Ducetius and fifthcentury Sicilian tyranny | 33 |
Figures and Tables | 35 |
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