Ancient Tyranny

Sian Lewis

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2006

Ancient Tyranny

Sian Lewis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748626434

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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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1. Introduction Sian Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I The making of tyranny
2. Kingship and tyranny in archaic Rome Fay Glinister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. Ducetius and fifth-century Sicilian tyranny Trinity Jackman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4. Adfectatio regni in the Roman Republic Christopher Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
5. Money and the Great Man in the fourth century BC: military power, aristocratic connections and mercenary service Matthew Trundle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
6. From Agathocles to Hieron II: the birth and development of basileia in Hellenistic Sicily Efrem Zambon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Part II Tyranny and politics
7. Tyrants and the polis: migration, identity and urban development in Sicily Kathryn Lomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
8. Synchronicity: the local and the panhellenic within Sicilian tyranny Sarah E. Harrell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
9. Alexander of Pherae: infelix tyrant Sławomir Sprawski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Part III The ideology of tyranny
10. Pindar and kingship theory Simon Hornblower Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
11. The comic Pericles James McGlew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
12. Tyrannical oligarchs at Athens Lynette Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
13. Plutarch and the Sicilian tyrants Claude Mossé and Robin Mackenzie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
14. Reckoning with tyranny: Greek thoughts on Caesar in Cicero’s Letters to Atticus in early 49 Ingo Gildenhard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Part IV The limits of tyranny
15. The violence of the Thirty Tyrants Andrew Wolpert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
16. The politics of Persian autocracy, 424–334 BC Stephen Ruzicka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
17. Sulla the weak tyrant Alexander Thein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 282
Keywords: Classics & Ancient History

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Published: February 22, 2006
ISBN: 9780748626434