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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... Ritual kingship casts a shadow down as far as the Athenian archōn basileus and the heroic honors paid to ancient city founders . In most later conceptions , it is the gap between the human and the divine that is significant , as we see ...
... ritual . That killing family is involved is obvious : Clytem- nestra kills her husband . As a result , the tyrannical couple does not seem to have any allies . They will , say the chorus , be hated by the people ( 1409–1411 , 1615-1616 ) ...
... rituals of the polis . Rather , their abuse of ritual tends to be expressed in their killing of family . The tyrannical hor- rors of family killing and abused ritual coalesce , as we have seen with the tragic killing of Agamemnon . Polis ...
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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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