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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... elite social context . A network of ritualised friendship linked the elites of the Greek poleis with each other and with the elites of the non - Greek world.33 These inter - elite links were governed not by the claims of the polis ...
... elite social context . A network of ritualised friendship linked the elites of the Greek poleis with each other and with the elites of the non - Greek world.33 These inter - elite links were governed not by the claims of the polis ...
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... elite could move within the Greek city - states . The death of Bolcon on accusa- tions of treacherous dealings with Ducetius may mask a relation of xenia , as such relationships were often interpreted as treasonous.37 Ducetius ' support ...
... elite could move within the Greek city - states . The death of Bolcon on accusa- tions of treacherous dealings with Ducetius may mask a relation of xenia , as such relationships were often interpreted as treasonous.37 Ducetius ' support ...
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... elite's quest for friends outside their com- munities . This included the world of the Persian elite . Now the aris- tocrats of Greece re - emerged from their cities and re - established ancient associations among their friends abroad ...
... elite's quest for friends outside their com- munities . This included the world of the Persian elite . Now the aris- tocrats of Greece re - emerged from their cities and re - established ancient associations among their friends abroad ...
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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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