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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... later 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 ...
... of 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 xii KATHRYN A. MORGAN.
... later conceptions , it is the gap between the human and the divine that is significant , as we see in much of the poetry of Pindar and also in the vase paintings cited by Morris . Religious and temporal power do not co- incide . Yet the ...
... powerful individuals . So too for a later period , Morris remarks ( following the lead of McGlew ) that " the myth and cult of a founder hero celebrated individual autonomy that was soon subverted into xvi KATHRYN A. MORGAN.
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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 |