Ancient TyrannySian Lewis Edinburgh University Press, 22/02/2006 - 282 من الصفحات Tyrants and tyranny are more than the antithesis of democracy and the mark of political failure: they are a dynamic response to social and political pressures.This book examines the autocratic rulers and dynasties of classical Greece and Rome and the changing concepts of tyranny in political thought and culture. It brings together historians, political theorists and philosophers, all offering new perspectives on the autocratic governments of the ancient world.The volume is divided into four parts. Part I looks at the ways in which the term 'tyranny' was used and understood, and the kinds of individual who were called tyrants. Part II focuses on the genesis of tyranny and the social and political circumstances in which tyrants arose. The chapters in Part III examine the presentation of tyrants by themselves and in literature and history. Part IV discusses the achievements of episodic tyranny within the non-autocratic regimes of Sparta and Rome and of autocratic regimes in Persia and the western Mediterranean world.Written by a wide range of leading experts in their field, Ancient Tyranny offers a new and comparative study of tyranny within Greek, Roman and Persian society. |
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CHAPTER 3 Ducetius and fifthcentury Sicilian tyranny | 33 |
CHAPTER 4 Adfectatio regni in the Roman Republic | 49 |
military power aristocratic connections and mercenary service | 65 |
the birth and development of basileia in Hellenistic Sicily | 77 |
PART II Tyranny and politics | 93 |
CHAPTER 10 Pindar and kingship theory | 151 |
CHAPTER 11 The comic Pericles | 164 |
CHAPTER 12 Tyrannical oligarchs at Athens | 178 |
CHAPTER 13 Plutarch and the Sicilian tyrants | 188 |
Greek thoughts on Caesar in Ciceros Letters to Atticus in early 49 | 197 |
PART IV The limits of tyranny | 211 |
CHAPTER 15 The violence of the Thirty Tyrants | 213 |
CHAPTER 16 The politics of Persian autocracy 424334 BC | 224 |
migration identity and urban development in Sicily | 95 |
the local and the panhellenic within Sicilian tyranny | 119 |
infelix tyrant | 135 |
PART III The ideology of tyranny | 149 |
CHAPTER 17 Sulla the weak tyrant | 238 |
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