Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient GreeceKathryn A. Morgan University of Texas Press, 01/08/2003 - 324 من الصفحات "The book is extremely successful in guiding the reader, who is not expected to be a classicist or ancient historian, through the paradoxes of the ideology of tyranny in classical Athens. [...] On the whole, this is a very stimulating volume, offering food for thought to historians, ancient and modern, and to anybody interested in political theory as well." —The Historian "This is a fascinating book, and should be an excellent stimulus for further discussion." —Journal of Hellenic Studies "Classicists around the English-speaking world will welcome such a treatment of tyranny, an increasingly important topic in studies of archaic and classical Greece." —James F. McGlew, author of Tyranny and Political Culture in Ancient Greece and Citizens on Stage: Comedy and Political Culture in the Athenian Democracy 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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... , Brian Beck , and Lowry Sweney at UCLA in preparing and checking the manuscript and for their work on the indices . Kathryn Morgan UCLA April 2002 KATHRYN A. MORGAN INTRODUCTION The essays collected together here originated vii.
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... essays . Kurt Raaflaub then surveys the centrality of tyranny for official fifth - century Athenian ideol- ogy in " Stick and Glue : The Function of Tyranny in Fifth - Century Athenian Democracy . " This essay presents the hard - line ...
... essays trace how a dissident tradition capitalized on competing ideologies of autonomy , desire , and legitimate authority and on the tensions that existed between these ideologies and political practice . The very free- dom , however ...
... essays . In the admittedly meager evidence provided for the Bronze Age and the Archaic period by myth , art , and ... essay concentrates on four areas of im- portance : the role of construction in our assessment of constitutional models ...
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Alternatives to Monarchy in Early Greece | xxiii |
The Question of Tyranny in Herodotus | 19 |
The Function of Tyranny in FifthCentury Athenian Democracy | 53 |
Tragic Tyranny | 89 |
Wealth Power and Economic Patronage | 111 |
Demos Demagogue Tyrant in Attic Old Commedy | 139 |
The Tyranny of the Audience in Plato and Isocrates | 163 |
A Political Debate in Images and Texts | 197 |
Changing the Discourse | 233 |
Afterword | 255 |
Bibliography | 259 |
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Index Locorum | 297 |