Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient GreeceKathryn A. Morgan University of Texas Press, 2003 - 324 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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... Dewald , this volume . The word itself ( first attested in Archil . 19 , 23.17–21 ; cf. Semonides 7.69 West [ all these references are to West 1971-1992 ; trans . in West 1993 ] ; etymology : see Dewald , this volume , n . 3 ) seems to ...
... Dewald , this volume , and many pertinent observations in Kurke 1999 . 13 3 “ Age of Cronus " : [ Arist . ] Ath . Pol . 16.7 ; cf. Rhodes 1981 : 217–218 . Cruelty : esp . Phalaris of Acragas ; see Berve 1967 : 1.129–132 , 2.593–595 ...
... Dewald notes in her essay in this volume , and the question is why . Dewald argues that Herodotus sets up a dual typology of tyrants , one Greek and one eastern , but that he locates Athens ( implicitly ) more into the construct of the ...
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Alternatives to Monarchy in Early Greece | 1 |
The Question of Tyranny in Herodotus | 25 |
The Function of Tyranny in FifthCentury | 59 |
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