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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... autocratic , monarchical gov- ernment . The three passages are found in books 1 , 3 , and 5 ; in all of them , the absolute rule of a single man is referred to as a tyranny , and it is presented as a negative phenomenon . THE DEIOCES ...
... autocratic rule sug- gest that they have been carefully placed to articulate facets of a basic theme , and one that provides a dynamic continuity in Herodotus ' narrative : the ten- dency of powerful autocratic regimes to become more ...
... autocratic imperialism prevents despots from taking seriously their own fallibility and mortality and also the real dynam- ics motivating others . Autocratic rulers misjudge the motives and strengths of uncivilized but hard opponents ...
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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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