Popular tyranny : sovereignty and its discontents in ancient Greece
Examines the extraordinary role that the concept of tyranny played in the cultural and political imagination of Archaic and Classical Greece
Print Book, English, 2003
University of Texas Press, Austin (Tex.), 2003
XXVII, 324 p. ill. 23 cm
9780292752764, 0292752768
1014531039
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction (Kathryn A. Morgan)Imaginary Kings: Alternatives to Monarchy in Early Greece (Sarah Morris)Form and Content: The Question of Tyranny in Herodotus (Carolyn Dewald)Stick and Glue: The Function of Tyranny in Fifth-Century Athenian Democracy (Kurt A. Raaflaub)Tragic Tyranny (Richard Seaford)Dêmos Tyrannos: Wealth, Power, and Economic Patronage (Lisa Kallet)Demos, Demagogue, Tyrant in Attic Old Comedy (Jeffrey Henderson)The Tyranny of the Audience in Plato and Isocrates (Kathryn A. Morgan)Tyrant-killing as Therapeutic Stasis: A Political Debate in Images and Texts (Josiah Ober)Changing the Discourse (Robin Osborne)Conclusion (Kathryn A. Morgan)BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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